Example sentences of "could [be] put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother and Omi and Paul were in , going through the arrangements for the party and wondering where the various guests could be put up — for free . |
| 2 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 3 | EXTRA GUESTS COULD BE PUT UP OVERNIGHT ON THEIR SAILING BOAT , USUALLY MOORED AT THE END OF THE THEIR BALCONY . |
| 4 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 5 | The Government with British Coal decided that they would get an independent consultant 's report to study how the mine could be put up for licence — whether under the consortium or under private ownership . |
| 6 | It could be put on and off each day , although with difficulty . |
| 7 | before the padlock could be put on , one of our maids dared it . |
| 8 | Is there a notice board down at the the that one of those could be put on ? |
| 9 | ‘ Next year 's Eurovision could be put on at the King 's Hall . |
| 10 | I would like us , no if we could do it to quarter to two , then I 'd be very pleased , item M could be put on , put on the top |
| 11 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 12 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 13 | Everyone took turns to patrol the streets at night during air raids , and had to be particularly vigilant in the event of firebombs , because if they were on the spot with their fire buckets of sand and water , many a fire could be put out before it got too bad . |
| 14 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |
| 15 | Turned out into the street , most of them , every morning — Cara knew well — while their mothers went to the mill , a ragged band of infant desperadoes , all under the magic age of nine when they too could be put out to labour . |
| 16 | Eventually , to the amazement of Murphy and the stable lad , she informed them that the livestock were all in their care until further notice and that the carriage horses could be put out to grass . |
| 17 | In London , he had a variety of jobs , including banking and journalism , being a founding member of New Society magazine , later incorporated into the New Statesman , which ironically could be put out of business by Major , who is suing it . |
| 18 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 19 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 20 | How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south . |
| 21 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 22 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 23 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 24 | Erm if Z X equals Z Y is when that 's the maximum , then Z X times Z Y is either could be put down as Z X times Z X or Z Y times Z Y cos they 're both the same . |
| 25 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 26 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 27 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 28 | Or they could be put down by other people . |
| 29 | The mill could be put back into full working order with a minimum of effort , should the need ever arise . |
| 30 | Beyond these factors were the numerical weakness and cultural backwardness of the working class , the low average productivity of labour ( even if the factories could be put back to work ) , the vastness of the land area and the isolation of its rural inhabitants , the barbaric inheritance of Tsarism — all in comparison with the exiguous forces of the Bolshevik party . |