Example sentences of "could [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 2 | They believe that one of the most common cancers , liver cancer , could be largely prevented by a vaccine . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the penal crisis is not simply a by-product of a ‘ crisis of capitalism ’ , and it could be largely solved without a complete political and social revolution . |
| 4 | After this , he could be hastily driven to a music lesson , followed by a painting or a dancing lesson . |
| 5 | It was exactly the issue that could be best settled by a bipartisan government . |
| 6 | If the proposals for electoral reform across the European union had occurred , this debate would not be taking place , boundaries would not be the relevant issue and a common electoral system would mean that the citizens of the European community could be properly represented as a whole . |
| 7 | He used to take this affair round various conferences and demonstrate to all and sundry that the crystal could be repeatedly bent to a strain of 2 per cent which is equivalent to a stress of about 600,000 p.s.i . |
| 8 | Differences in antibody responses between the study groups were assessed by comparison of ( i ) rates of seroconversion ( defined as a change in antibody titre from undetectable [ <8 ] to detectable [ 8 ] ; ( ii ) rates of secondary 4-fold or greater rises in antibody titre in seropositive children for whom additional 4-fold rises could be reliably documented with a neutralisation upper limit of 1:1024 — ie , children with baseline titres of 8–256 ; and ( iii ) type-specific geometric mean titres ( GMTs ) among the total study population and among children who seroconverted or had secondary 4-fold or greater rises in antibody after vaccination . |
| 9 | This was because many of the IT skills acquired on the Advanced Courses could be effectively used in a variety of business settings , eg programming or systems work . |
| 10 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 11 | This choice reflected both the potential application of the eventual system ( i.e. , the Banking and Estate Agents ) and ease of availability ( the Music documents could be easily collected from a research bulletin board ) . |
| 12 | The timber lid is in two parts and could be easily made from a few lengths of timber stained or painted to match the surroundings . |
| 13 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 14 | That could be cynically exploited by a side who could afford to concede at least two penalties in a game 's dying stages and still win . |
| 15 | But there was sufficient sex feeling left over to need an outlet and this was often more than could be successfully sublimated into a mere exuberance of energy in reading or games or any other form of camp activity . |
| 16 | Corners of the garden which are awkward and difficult to plant decoratively because of their size and soil state , could be successfully filled with a container-grown herb or herbs , even changing the display as the seasons alter . |
| 17 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 18 | Firms and institutions which are otherwise financially sound could be hard hit by a protracted run of debt defaults . |
| 19 | If the intention is to jog the memories and consciences of possible witnesses , surely this could be better achieved by a simple request by the officer in charge of the investigation . |
| 20 | Indeed , hi-tech could be better understood as a set of principles distilled from a collection of material forms than as objects intended to embody prior principles . |
| 21 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 22 | Conveyancing procedures being reviewed to see whether they could be further altered in a way which will assist the prevention of fraud . |
| 23 | Perhaps the rejection of marriage and the espousal of a profession represents a ‘ deviant career ’ for women , or perhaps the phenomenon of the obsessive , houseproud housewife could be usefully seen as a form of gender role-related deviance . |
| 24 | Moreover , just as the empirical data on social inequality that were presented in Chapter 2 could be usefully explained through a combination of Marxist and Weberian theories , in this chapter , the concepts of closure and reproduction also help to bring Marxist and Weberian approaches together , this time for the analysis of the dynamics of class . |
| 25 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 26 | It is difficult , too , to see how such an approach could be happily integrated into a balanced curriculum . |
| 27 | Quality of activities could be short circuited by a pressure to ‘ get through ’ programmes of content . |
| 28 | popular anger against inequalities in the distribution of food could be swiftly transferred into a grim determination to defeat the Hun , as became clear when the military stalemate broke in March 1918 . |
| 29 | Thus , if the lake monster surfaced , the animal could be quickly offered as a sacrifice , allowing the boat to make a quick return to shore . |