Example sentences of "could be [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact it was mentioned earlier that V A T er could be imposed on fossil fuel but I think any administration . |
| 2 | The British Mountain Bike Record could be broken on sunday as the best in the land compete in the National Championships at Eastnor Park … in Herefordshire … |
| 3 | It was perhaps unfortunate that potatoes could be grown on land which would not support other crops because this led to countries with poor rural economies turning more and more towards potatoes as their sole means of sustenance . |
| 4 | The judges were convinced that the fear of capital punishment was a real deterrent , and it was difficult to see what effective alternative punishment could be inflicted on murderers . |
| 5 | A new tax could be levied on UK industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land , according to proposals currently being considered by the Department of the Environment . |
| 6 | The idea was proposed to Priestley that his carbonated water , which could be prepared on board , might provide doses of carbon dioxide and thus prevent scurvy ( as well as make the distilled sea water more palatable ) . |
| 7 | However , the energies necessary to test a GUT or a TOE are unimaginably greater than anything that could be achieved on earth . |
| 8 | Candidates could be rejected on grounds including character ; they had to be at least 45 years of age and have financial management skills . |
| 9 | Other scientists were more concerned with physics that could be studied on earth . |
| 10 | That shows how much damage could be wrought on parts of the planet . |
| 11 | This new ‘ workflow ’ software opened up vast new possibilities for DIP solutions that could be justified on time savings and service improvements as well as space savings . |
| 12 | They could be dining on board or coming across to dine here later . |
| 13 | The government was defeated in the General Election of June 1970 before further progress could be made on proposals which would have added another 3.3 million people to those already to be covered by two-tier local government . |
| 14 | No such claim for completeness could be made on behalf of the Keynesian model since its raison d'être was the abandonment of the enabling assumption of full employment in order to explain the phenomenon of general unemployment . |
| 15 | However , someone other than the purchaser could be injured on account of the article 's negligent manufacture and an exclusion clause would provide no defence in an action brought by him against the manufacturer . |
| 16 | All 14 patients ( 6 female , 8 male ) could be evaluated on completion of the study . |
| 17 | In his report delivered the next day , he observed that the road surface was not yet completed and that only drivers with at least six years ' service could be employed on Anerley Hill . |
| 18 | ( i ) Trusts could be charged on persons other than a testamentary heir ; on anyone in fact who received a benefit under succession to the deceased . |
| 19 | As bass notes were reproduced very weakly , the bass line was often attributed to the tuba , which had more higher-frequency harmonics ; these could be recognized on playback as constituting a ‘ bass line ’ . |
| 20 | What colour could be seen on Broome station platform in December ? |
| 21 | Next day some of us could be heard on Radio Scotland 's Sundayscope answering the Rev. Johnston McKay 's searching questions about Christian Aid as at St. Andrew 's and St. George 's . |
| 22 | Large-scale town-expansion schemes could be based on Ipswich , Northampton , Peterborough and Swindon . |
| 23 | The reason could be based on considerations of either equity or efficiency . |
| 24 | In a leading case in 1969 , Lord Devlin agreed that reasonable suspicion could be based on information that would not generally be admissible in court . |
| 25 | If planning regulations allowed , a small number of starter flats could be built on top of the centre , providing housing for single people , this would ease the housing shortage in the area . |
| 26 | It arose from the digitisation of archived paper records of previous international surveys , so that the information could be stored on computer and made accessible to modern techniques of data retrieval , image analysis and interpretation . |
| 27 | In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains . |
| 28 | The hard drive should be connected to its mounting by four screws or it could be mounted on drive rails . |
| 29 | Do judges and lawyers recognize legal rights mainly in circumstances that could be explained on pragmatist grounds ? |
| 30 | Another £132 could be saved on beer , £100 on the cigars , £40 on cigarettes and £32 on spirits . |