Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Routes could be planned for a variety of jumps etc . |
| 3 | If two 30W tubes proved to be too bright over a 3′ tank , one or both could be swapped for a 25W . |
| 4 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 5 | This makes it difficult to see how the judgement could be mistaken for a sensation . |
| 6 | Toyota has so much cash that it could be mistaken for a mini-bank , not a carmaker . |
| 7 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 8 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |
| 9 | The interest rates are calculated in the way required by the Consumer Credit Act and do not take into account any tax relief that could be gained for a home improvements loan . |
| 10 | Choosing a penn'orth of sweets could be a long job : a gob-stopper , a liquorice wheel , liquorice rope , a chew , each could be bought for a farthing , and many boiled sweets and toffees were only tuppence a quarter . |
| 11 | Quite a number of things could be bought for a halfpenny — Barretts Sherbet Fountains with liquorice straws , Sherbet Dabs with their lump of toffee on a stick , Liquorice Ropes , Humbugs , Spearmint Lumps , Aniseed Balls were 20 for a penny . |
| 12 | Those were the days when a farm worker earned about thirty shillings a week , and three pounds was quite a good wage , so it is not surprising that a Saturday afternoon at the cinema cost tuppence , and four different sweets could be bought for a penny . |
| 13 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |
| 14 | In WORDWISE + , the command ( f1 ) PN12(f2) could be input for a file which the user wished to start at PAGE 12 . |
| 15 | If you defame the clinic or the doctor you could be sued for a fortune ! ’ |
| 16 | Indeed the whole issue of Sabbath observance could be set for a return to fashion . |
| 17 | THE Premier League could be set for a £30 million-plus windfall if negotiations to sell television rights worldwide are concluded this week . |
| 18 | Crisis Line need £200,000 to save the property ; a national disaster management network , they believe , could be established for a totasl of £300,000 . |
| 19 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 20 | The Tate collections have long needed to be split : traditional British art in the present building ; modern British ( twentieth-century , or post-1945 ? ) and foreign Schools elsewhere , except perhaps for the jumbo Moore bronzes , which could be recycled for a Thatcher monument , or other suitable purposes . |
| 21 | Falconer , who won youth and Under-21 caps with Aberdeen , could be considered for a problem role at senior international level . |
| 22 | There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way . |
| 23 | Microware , which traditionally serves the industrial sector , envisages its technology could be used for a variety of applications based on the OS/9 multi-tasking real time operating system . |
| 24 | Hence , it seemed likely that information on similarities and differences between the five Belfast communities on the one hand and Lurgan on the other could be used for a variety of theoretical purposes . |