Example sentences of "could be [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does have the advantage of operating on a level where guilt or innocence might be easier to establish and where punishment could be imposed on a state basis . |
| 2 | Lord Sutherland told Maddison that life imprisonment was the only sentence that could be imposed on a murder charge . |
| 3 | Or a pair of full-length curtains could be hung from a pole across the wall in front of the bow , framing the windows by day and closing off the alcove at . |
| 4 | Portable models could be hung from a ring on the rim so that the datum line was horizontal . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years . |
| 6 | Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty . |
| 7 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 8 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 9 | He states that the Causey Mounth , isolated from heavy traffic , could be developed as a commuter route for cyclists and for other leisure and recreational uses . |
| 10 | Similar programmes could be developed in a chemistry or physics context . |
| 11 | Thus the maximum term of imprisonment which could be inflicted without a jury quadrupled between 1884 and 1899 . |
| 12 | He said the copper pipe could be filled with a mixture of fireworks powder . |
| 13 | He is even more adamant that he is not stealing a place that could be filled by an Englishman . |
| 14 | Routes could be planned for a variety of jumps etc . |
| 15 | However , individual members could be faced with a deterioration in their balance of trade if the trade creation effect were to increase imports more than exports . |
| 16 | If you are not ready to deal with the problem of alcohol misuse if and when it occurs , one day you could be faced with a crisis . |
| 17 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 18 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 19 | It is easy to see how the sleeping pill he had taken could be misunderstood as an overdose , but an airliner full of his friends would be an unlikely place for anyone to kill himself . |
| 20 | The government therefore took its stand on the position that the confidentiality rule operated between members of the Cabinet and in the general context of a minister 's official duties , and that it could be invoked in a court of law to restrain revelations of Cabinet and other official discussions . |
| 21 | There were also work cells in which a truculent tramp could be placed with a hundredweight slab of concrete or granite as a companion . |
| 22 | A study of a small series of sixth-century , square-headed , brooches showed how the various brooches could be placed into a sequence because of the interchange of parts of the decoration on them . |
| 23 | No reversion or remainder , however , could be placed after a fee simple . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 switching has to be done manually , and if this could be achieved via a footswitch it would in effect make this a four-channel combo with all the versatility which that implies . |
| 25 | There had been pressure from the Tourist Board and Turkish TV crews to start the rafting trip from a particularly scenic and dramatic place and the guides misjudged what could be achieved with a novice crew . |
| 26 | On the one hand , if the landlord has redevelopment plans or if a higher rent could be achieved on a reletting of a greater part of the building , it will be in the landlord 's interest to ensure that all tenancies are expressed to expire on the same date . |
| 27 | The message of de Gaulle the politician was that national renewal did not have to succeed national disaster ; it could be achieved through a reform in the organization of the French state . |
| 28 | The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new . |
| 29 | The court can not exercise its powers to make a specific issue or prohibited steps order with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by a residence or contact order ( s9(5) ( a ) ) . |
| 30 | The conventional explanation of the coalition 's commitment to provide ‘ a high and stable level of employment after the war ’ is that men in positions of power were convinced the aim could be achieved by a policy of managing effective demand , as advocated by Keynes and his supporters . |