Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James broke with the SWP following the protracted debate on the question of whether or not the Soviet Union could be defended as a workers ' state . |
| 2 | A ten-year-old could be detained in a police cell for up to 36 hours but it is more common for children to be released into the care of social workers overnight . |
| 3 | Obviously , the case was stronger than the one actually provided for , so it could be regarded as a fortiori . |
| 4 | VXM claims a CPU-intensive subroutine created using PVM and executing on a cluster of mixed network environments could be accessed by a applications running on systems running ToolTalk services . |
| 5 | Set out below is the form of a lock-out clause which could be used in a heads of agreement . |