Example sentences of "he could [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold . |
2 | Hatred of the absentee landlord , for instance , fitted the moral structure of the pueblo because he could be felt as an intruder from an alien city world : hence the emotional content of Andalusian village anarchism . |
3 | If the doctor helped Mr Mansur , he could be charged under a new Michigan law that makes it a crime to assist a person to commit suicide . |
4 | In his anxiety on finding out that he could be deprived of his commission , Scott had rushed into print , without properly considering the effect of his letter on others . |
5 | Surely , after covering 11 wars , including Vietnam , he could be forgiven for calling it quits ? |
6 | No doubt he could be forgiven for an inadvertent omission , but women more than most know that life , like history , is made up of inadvertencies . |
7 | Request : Posing as a female post-grad English student , we wrote to ask Parliament 's Mr Fixit whether he could be questioned on his name and how it affected him . |
8 | He could be sent to another war zone at any time . |
9 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
10 | A farmer who 's admitted almost thirty cases of cruelty to animals has been warned he could be sent to prison . |
11 | I du n no , I du n no whether he 's erm he really could be , I mean he could be the thing is he could be compared to a hobo . |
12 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
13 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |
14 | After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into . |
15 | That day Antrim were forced to play without the injured Terence McNaughton , and he 's again a reluctant spectator today , though he could be pressed into action at some stage . |
16 | After hearing the boy 's story of how he had been ‘ neglected and abused ’ by his mother Rachel , judge Thomas Kirk told him he could be adopted by his foster parents George and Lizabeth Russ . |
17 | Here , he could be exploited by elements already working against the central government . |
18 | President Georges Pompidou of France refused to come unless he could be seated above Haile Selassie and Francophone heads of state ; the Shah refused , so , in a huff , Pompidou sent his prime minister instead . |
19 | The youngster played a major role in looking after him and ensuring he could be cared for at home . |
20 | Britain 's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately . |
21 | Physically she had to admit he still turned her on and probably always would , but , having found out just how irritating he could be to live with she was furious to discover that his sex appeal was far too potent a force for her feelings to be seriously affected , no matter how cross with him she felt at the moment . |
22 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Amiss helpfully , ‘ he could be pretending to be deaf and dumb . |
23 | After all , he knew Mr Parnham better than she did and he did n't look as if he could be fooled at all . |
24 | It seduced his imagination : woolly wisps streaming past told him nothing ; he could be flying into a mountainside … or diving … or two seconds away from a collision … |
25 | It is true that if Mr. Tully fails to comply with the order of Buckley J. he could be punished for contempt after a hearing in open court and subject to review by an appellate court . |
26 | If he issues the injunction and Mr Farquharson ignores it , he could be jailed for up to two years for contempt . |
27 | If he breaks yesterday 's court order , he could be jailed for up to two years for contempt of court . |
28 | That means he could be thinking of linking Regis with Saunders and pushing Dalian Atkinson wide . |
29 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
30 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |