Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Board secretary John Morris said : ‘ The Board 's main consideration was whether the title should remain on ice or whether this contest could be accepted for that championship . |
| 2 | Though sites around the Scottish coast could be used for any plans by oil companies to adopt the technique for UK waters , he predicted that the first deep-water application of the method would be in the Norwegian sector and Brazilian waters . |
| 3 | The car was purchased last year at a cost of £5,000 but a similar one year old car could be bought for £4,500 . |
| 4 | It is enough to say that that is not a proof of the counter proposition that outside the three miles no such result could be looked for . |
| 5 | , Abraham ( c. 1793–1860 ) , bricklayer and the last man subjected to an ‘ appeal of murder ’ , by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried for the same offence a second time , was born c .1793 , the son of a Castle Bromwich builder . |
| 6 | The other day , when a new silver dinner service was commissioned for 10 Downing Street , I asked how much silver could be bought for a million pounds , which seemed a suitably round number . |
| 7 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 8 | Specialised materials , which Tootal promised would be an engine of growth , has yet to prove its worth , though continued heavy investment could be blamed for a 40 per cent fall in profits . |
| 9 | The pragmatist could agree , pointing out that the scope notes for each term could be used for precisely this purpose , adding that , unless a scientific name has no more common alternative , it should remain non-preferred , with an alternative preferred term supplied . |
| 10 | As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom . |
| 11 | The ingredient could be retained for other users thereby saving purchases of £34,000 less 25% [ £8,500 ] = £25,500 . |
| 12 | Some aquarium gravel could be added for effect , but this is not , of course , suitable for an undergravel system . |
| 13 | The materials in stock could be resold for £4,000 less 10% selling expenses , or could be used to produce another product after some further processing . |
| 14 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 15 | I would appreciate if any future correspondence could be forwarded for my attention instead of C M Galbraith . |
| 16 | In Harrison v. Duke of Rutland ( H.C. , 1893 ) it was held that a person who used the highway other than for passage could be sued for trespass . |
| 17 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 18 | Whatever we do for Lent could be done for an intention or our families . |
| 19 | But Bob 's Return may find this extended mile and three quarters beyond him and dour stayer Azzilfi could be beaten for speed near the finish . |
| 20 | The birth of the Prince Imperial had been so difficult — the Empress had been in labour for 18 hours — that no further child could be hoped for . |
| 21 | No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot . |
| 22 | Neither judge could be faulted for acting as he did , Lord Lane added . |
| 23 | They would have to enter the town , and make their entry apparent to the besiegers , make it clear that the siege could be withstood for long yet , a new spirit of defiance engendered in the defenders . |
| 24 | If that cut is n't seen to by somebody qualified the boy could be scarred for life . ’ |
| 25 | Moreover , during the badal diet breath CH 4 concentrations increased in responders duggesting that their usual diet contained enough sulphate for sulphate reducing bacteria to reduce the amount of hydrogen available to methanogens , whilst on the sulphate depleted basal diet more hydrogen could be used for methanogenesis . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They did ask the King to call a free Parliament , in which provision could be made for a " due liberty of conscience " for all Protestants , although they linked this with the demand that the Church of England should " be secured according to the Act of Uniformity " , suggesting that " due liberty of conscience " was to be very limited indeed . |
| 28 | I am not convinced , despite contentions by some , that even with increased resourcing this positive provision could be recreated for many children in their home and community settings . |
| 29 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 30 | It rested on two basic assumptions : that Britain 's power and influence in the world depended upon a sound economy ; and that by making the fullest use of nuclear weapons , missiles , and modern transport aircraft , men and money could be saved for the country 's economic benefit . |