Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] for [art] [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 | There was no archetypal couch in Dr Kingdom 's consulting room , although a chair by the window looked as if it could be converted for the purpose . |
| 4 | Thus two paths could be followed for the string , one for the stem union plus the suffix - ise and the other for the prefix un- , the stem ion and the suffix - ise . |
| 5 | He asked if it could be arranged for the morning . |
| 6 | He had ordered the men at the north-facing ramparts and at the churchyard wall to fight their way back through the Residency from room to room towards the hall , from where a dash could be made for the head of the connecting trench ; once safely inside the trench the north-facing cannons of the banqueting hall , firing over their heads , could give them covering fire to complete their withdrawal . |
| 7 | A charge could be made for the work carried out and this could offset the cost of the paper . ’ |
| 8 | No provision could be made for the selection of books to be kept up to date and they are not much used now , but there is an excellent service of books from the Argyll and Bute District library for the residents and patients in the hospital . |
| 9 | A strong case could be made for the boundary of the new province to have been based on a line from the Humber to the Bristol Channel , probably following the lower Severn , the Warwickshire Avon and the Trent . |
| 10 | However homoeopathy is very successful in veterinary practice and it is theoretically possible that suitable animal tests could be devised for the study of at least some homoeopathic remedies . |
| 11 | If two 30W tubes proved to be too bright over a 3′ tank , one or both could be swapped for a 25W . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being . |
| 13 | One has only to read the correspondence of F.J. Osborn with Lewis Mumford over these years ( Hughes , 1971 ) to appreciate the single-minded zeal that could be generated for the attainment of the new Jerusalem . |
| 14 | For example , 90-per-cent loans could be granted for the acquisition of land or the carrying out of works on land and industrial improvement areas ( see below ) . |
| 15 | Whatever we do for Lent could be done for an intention or our families . |
| 16 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 17 | Fire sub-officer Paul , 33 , knew nothing could be done for the car couple , but he realised the lorryman had not got out . |
| 18 | When the day for her departure arrived nobody could be heard for the weeping and wailing of the girls . |
| 19 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 20 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 21 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 22 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 23 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 24 | This makes it difficult to see how the judgement could be mistaken for a sensation . |
| 25 | Toyota has so much cash that it could be mistaken for a mini-bank , not a carmaker . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |
| 28 | I can think of at least half a dozen of Henry 's courtiers who could be mistaken for the King . ’ |
| 29 | However , what is altogether remarkable is the way in which these rough working-class youths who donned Ted suits in the 1950s , and slicked back their hair in a greasy imitation of Elvis Presley , could be mistaken for the children of the ‘ affluent society ’ . |
| 30 | Hence their wariness of any human concepts about God which threatened to become a new idolatry that could be mistaken for the reality itself . |