Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders . |
2 | But a static gathering was likely to amount to an obstruction , which could be cleared by the police exercising common law powers . |
3 | South Africa 's Administrator-General , Louis Pienaar , had proposed that all ballots be cast in numbered envelopes , which could be traced after the elections , and that the count should be conducted in the capital , Windhoek , over as long as five weeks . |
4 | Here it could be wedged among the reeds , and would eventually be picked clean . |
5 | In this way , the basic pattern in the egg could be transferred to the cells . |
6 | Much of this was not respectable but at least it showed that popular music and humour could be channelled into the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
7 | A COMPROMISE could be achieved between the owners of a Suffolk stately home and local residents over plans to divert a footpath which have aroused a storm of debate . |
8 | When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position . |
9 | There was an obscure but real sense in which you attempted to portray yourself as fundamentally progressive , as achieving as much as could be achieved in the circumstances in terms of liberalising legislation . |
10 | But in practical terms of what could be achieved in the time-scales envisaged , with new contracts due to be signed between the privatized generating and distribution companies by the end of 1989 , nuclear power was the only option for large chunks of capacity . |
11 | They could be asked about the improvements that metal tools could bring , Through discussions like these , pupils should be brought to realise that what people could do in the past was often limited by their technology . |
12 | Tensions over the degree to which hopes for peace could be invested in the processes of inter-state relations were already familiar to pre-1914 pacifists , and they will continue to exercise peace activists so long as nation states exist . |
13 | On the other hand , in the case of his daughter and the justification offered for taking her life , it might be argued that , similar acts of violence could be justified on the grounds that the ultimate goal is the redemption of souls . |
14 | This emphasis could be justified on the grounds that economics or at least a version of it — lies currently at the heart of government discourse on higher education , but it also reflects the fact that there is more to go on , in terms of information and analysis , with this aspect of the undergraduate curriculum than with the other seven . |
15 | The North consumes too much and the South suffers through debt , food shortages and lack of resources.This is of direct importance to the UN and a campaign to address the problem could be justified from the recommendations of the Willi Brandt report ‘ A Programme for Human Survival ’ . |
16 | The former Conservative Party chairman insisted that even if the treaty was ratified , it could be challenged in the courts . |
17 | The Attorney-General referred to the Court of Appeal under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 the questions whether proceedings upon indictment could be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay had not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution , and , if so , what degree of likelihood and seriousness of prejudice was required to justify a stay of such proceedings . |
18 | No positive identification could be made of the bodies , Mexican sources at the crash site informed ACN . |
19 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
20 | Amongst other things , the examination had revealed possible areas where improvements could be made to the services that the CSSU provided , in particular those services concerned with supplying the information needed for staff to fulfil their functions . |
21 | As only three episodes of acid reflux were seen in the absence of a common cavity episode no statement could be made about the effects of acidification alone . |
22 | As he said , in some cases there are already agreements that compensation could be made under the investors compensation scheme . |
23 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
24 | There are no payments on dairy cows , immature cattle or immature sheep ( though such payments could be made under the terms of the Directive ) . |
25 | The old workings which were flooded had first to be unwatered before connection could be made by the workings rising from Taylor 's Level below . |
26 | An informal discussion took place between the advocates with the clerk of the court as to the use that could be made by the justices of those statements and that medical report . |
27 | From amongst the numerous citations which could be made from the judgments and speeches in those cases , I am content to take the judgment of Byles J. in Cooper 's case , 14 C.B.N.S. 180 . |
28 | Protective footlets could be made from the feet of old stockings . |
29 | Recommending how such provision could be made within the districts , Glancy ( as the report was known after the psychiatrist leading the group ) concluded that admissions to Friern could cease after the date when the proposed new services were in place . |
30 | It was on these three criteria , described by a member of the Stephen Jones group which concocted them as ‘ the best that could be devised in the circumstances ’ , that the 1981–2 ‘ pool ’ allocation was based . |