Example sentences of "[pers pn] could be [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the vital years before a child was apprenticed he or she could be captured from the streets , confirmed in God-fearing ways and inoculated against those habits of sloth , debauchery and irreligion which propelled so many of the lower orders to crime , prostitution and heathenism . |
| 2 | In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance . |
| 3 | Gas-operated and self-loading from a thirty-round magazine , they could be fired from the shoulder or the hip . |
| 4 | Three of the pictures in this issue of BAIE News were taken by Ian Billinghurst on the DCS200 , but a lot of work was needed before they could be transferred from the computer system at the BAIE convention to the system at Hardman Press Services . |
| 5 | Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom . |
| 6 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 7 | In the Isle of Wight , the development of care programme systems and the need for monitoring were seen to require an increase in ‘ IT and support staff input ’ , although it is not clear whether this represented additional resources , and if so whether they could be met from the MISG or elsewhere . |
| 8 | Those which do not exist are effectively discarded because they are not stored in the list , however they could be regenerated from the graph should that become necessary at some future stage . |
| 9 | But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale . |
| 10 | If it were the case that some of the remaining words were radically different from the approximate values for shape and length they could be removed from the list of candidates . |
| 11 | Unlike advertising , however , they could be excluded from a definition of mass media because by twentieth-century standards they did not spread their messages quickly and simultaneously , nor to audiences that were large in relation to the communities within which they circulated . |
| 12 | You see the idea , was if you had lights in your house and there was just a kink , or chink , they used to call them in those days , they could be spotted from the air , so th You either had wooden shutters at your window , or blackout curtaining . |
| 13 | It could be distinguished from an opposing process , which produces a non-material consciousness . |
| 14 | Then the odd whitewashed marshland cottage stands strangely palpable , as if it could be plucked from the scene and held for ever . |
| 15 | With horror and doubt on his face , the elder seizes a pitchfork and hurls it into the gangster 's back ’ It could be argued from the Kantian standpoint that the elder had failed in his duty by not upholding the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence . |
| 16 | Strong as this is from the land , it could be battered from the sea . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 18 | The drugs giant has been rocked by talk that it could be expelled from the FTSE because of the way it pays dividends . |
| 19 | In terms of the land which is lost and will it be counted , er I would agree with David Allenby , in so in so far as where small sites are lost , they are in fact largely taken up in past land-take trends , but when a major site is lost , that at the moment forms part of the ninety one base of employment , and it it is something that we would n't have anticipated , therefore I think in terms of when we look at land availability figures and availability of supply erm we would have to look very carefully at land which is lost or significant land which is lost , or a significant number of jobs , it would n't necessary be added onto the structure plan requirement , but it could be deducted from the land availa land availability figures as land lost . |
| 20 | He could be gone from the town . ’ |