Example sentences of "[noun sg] it could [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's appointments were of better men , but he used Laud , Williams , Juxon and others as his highest secular officials ; in that capacity it could hardly be expected that they would not be the subject of the same Parliamentary criticism as were laymen . |
| 2 | As seen , Lord Greene M.R. in the Wednesbury case conceived of unreasonableness in its substantive sense , as a long stop and a fairly extreme one at that : if an exercise of discretion successfully negotiated the hurdles of improper purpose and relevancy it could still be invalidated on the altar of substantive unreasonableness if it was so unreasonable that no reasonable body could reach such a decision . |
| 3 | Some legal experts held that , even if the death sentence were reintroduced , under Peruvian law it could not be passed retroactively on Guzmán . |
| 4 | It was a bit of a Catch 22 situation because without signing the car could not be tested and without a test it could not be driven on the road . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's some consolation that it has been found but it 's a shame it could n't be retrieved in time for Remembrance Sunday . |
| 6 | It was the eternal noise at that bend in the river , but on a normal day it could n't be heard here . |
| 7 | It was agreed by the parties that if the proviso on its true construction operated as a restraint of trade it could not be justified on the ground of reasonableness . |
| 8 | For one of Karl Barth 's disposition it could never be said that because something has been perceived to be natural by humankind , therefore it is the will of God . |
| 9 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 10 | To that extent it could well be said , and indeed I do find and hold , that the effectiveness of the first part of the order takes away the substance , as it were , of the whole order . |
| 11 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 12 | By this stage it could fairly be said that women had gained a footing in the Edinburgh book-houses . |