Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the real world it is difficult to see how such a tax could be imposed or calculated , and it would make much more practical sense to tackle the offending firm under monopolies legislation . |
| 2 | Others commented that the subjective experience of patients was outside the range of what could be recorded and judged objectively . |
| 3 | Clever idea , but there is a feeling that this could be broken if not treated with care . |
| 4 | They would be more careful with each other this time because they knew how easily human beings could be broken and hurt . |
| 5 | It was true that at this altitude — where crops could be grown but only with constant attention — people were slaves to their land . |
| 6 | The alternative approach to treating an infectious disease , by means of chemotherapy , made little progress until viruses could be grown and studied in cultures outside living organisms . |
| 7 | Mr. Dear says that almost no action that could be registered and measured by Her Majesty 's inspector has yet been taken by the police committee . |
| 8 | In the average-size or small hotel these tasks could be centralised and dealt with by the brigade of receptionists in one office . |
| 9 | The writers , while condemning the failings of the old nobility , notably their decadence and degradation , thought that their way of life could be revitalised and could become the foundation of a civil life that stemmed the rising tide of democracy and , as they feared , mob rule . |
| 10 | Drilling down to where rocks are at high temperatures , excavating a large cavity , then pumping down a fluid which could be vaporised and used to generate electricity , could give geothermal energy a wide application but involves the development of new technology . |
| 11 | And building society , anybody who has a building society account prior to ninety one two if they had n't income really i they were silly to have money in the building society account because they were having tax deducted but could n't get it back and at the same time as the independent taxation they changed the er tax system for building societies and banks which meant that banks and building societies were then deducted tax at the standard rate of twenty five percent and it could be refunded or repaid or not deducted in certain circumstances , so back to your question , anybody who has money in a building society now , or is n't taxable , should ask the building society not to deduct tax , as they 're entitled to do , fill a form and , and where people can state that they do n't , they 're not liable to pay tax , building societies and banks will not now deduct income tax . |
| 12 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 13 | Mr Robertson applied for an adjournment to see if witnesses could be traced but Mr Justice Kennedy denied his application . |
| 14 | The end of British Imperialism could be traced as having occurred with the Suez Canal affair which led to the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 16 | It remained to be seen whether these four armies could be united before Negus Mikael could blockade Ras Lul Seged and Fitaurari Gelli in Ankober and advance into the plain of Debra Berhan where the first battle was expected to take place . |
| 17 | Such sites can be useful , however , as a collection of pottery may indicate earlier occupation on a site than could be discerned when it was pasture or a field of unploughed earthworks . |
| 18 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 19 | Marx and Engels repeatedly emphasized that by ‘ dialectically ’ confronting what was contradictory in the main intellectual currents of their day , and by forcibly demonstrating the class biases which produced intellectual contradictions , their own distinctive theories could be developed and enhanced . |
| 20 | Training schemes should look at skills existing among women in the area and see how these could be developed and upgraded . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been thinking about how the constituent parts of the two people and the car could be transmogrified and reassembled — if Cardiff 's surmise is correct , that is . ’ |
| 22 | Time spent away from the patient , formally designated as teaching time , which could be planned or spontaneous . |
| 23 | There are real fears that they could be used to depress wages , that team work could be jeopardised and that women and staff from ethnic minorities will be further disadvantaged . |
| 24 | Bronze , an alloy of mainly copper and tin , could be polished until it looked almost like gold , and the technique of making it had been known in Britain for centuries . |
| 25 | None of the simple rituals could be observed but in the tradition of warriors who have performed brave deeds — say the grabbing of the tail of a lion before spearing it — Tepilit was remembered and spoken of . |
| 26 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 27 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 28 | TAP water for hundreds of thousands of people could be polluted if pit closures go ahead , an environmental group claimed yesterday . |
| 29 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 30 | ONe of these was the notion of compiling human knowledge as sets of ‘ rules ’ that could be manipulated and controlled by an ‘ inference engine ’ , the purpose being to combine human type reasoning with the processing speed of the computer and by doing so to provide output that was similar to that of a human expert . |