Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal to abolish capital punishment was defeated ; the death penalty could be imposed for treason , aggravated murder , rape of a minor , and " crimes against peace and the safety of mankind " . |
| 2 | In actual fact it was mentioned earlier that V A T er could be imposed on fossil fuel but I think any administration . |
| 3 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 4 | Where a party can only be liable if negligent , a clause such as that in White v Warwick ought to be enough to protect against liability , even if parallel liability for failure to take reasonable care could be imposed in tort and contract ( Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd [ 1945 ] KB 189 ) . |
| 5 | In the case of the discretionary sentence there is always a notional equivalent determinate sentence which could be imposed in accord with established sentencing practice but for the current mental state of the defendant which makes him a danger to the public . |
| 6 | A cooling-off period of , say , six weeks could be imposed by application to the courts and this would allow negotiations and talks to continue . |
| 7 | Thus gall bladder muscle contractions could be recorded as changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure . |
| 8 | Any problems could be recorded for discussion . |
| 9 | This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period . |
| 10 | A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time . |
| 11 | In the meantime a jig had been prepared such that the tailplanes could be broken under loads not dissimilar to those they would meet in the air . |
| 12 | The British Mountain Bike Record could be broken on sunday as the best in the land compete in the National Championships at Eastnor Park … in Herefordshire … |
| 13 | It was perhaps unfortunate that potatoes could be grown on land which would not support other crops because this led to countries with poor rural economies turning more and more towards potatoes as their sole means of sustenance . |
| 14 | One problem for the Virginia planters was that tobacco could be grown in England ; James I agreed to help the company by making tobacco-growing illegal in England and , although people broke the law and tried to raise tobacco for much of the rest of the century , the American monopoly was eventually made effective . |
| 15 | In effect , we have pruned out those parts of the tree which could be grown from node 8 . |
| 16 | Before Mr Stewart was charged , there was a tacit agreement that pilots could admit flying problems in private so that others could be warned in time to avoid disaster . |
| 17 | For example , in Smith , Kline and French Laboratories Ltd. v Sterling Winthrop Group Ltd. [ 1976 ] , it was held that coloured capsules for drugs could be registered as trade marks . |
| 18 | When it was finished , in 1984 , it had to be screened , in a private showing , to a number of Members of Parliament before it could be cleared for transmission . |
| 19 | The carrier Bulwark had to be sailed hastily north from Mombasa with an infantry battalion embarked to establish a forward base at Aqaba on the Red Sea , through which supplies could be despatched to Amman by road . |
| 20 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 21 | Such a companion volume , though different in flavour from the rest , could provide the necessary framework on which the detailed volumes could be hung in context , and to which the reader could refer to maintain an overall perspective of the series . |
| 22 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
| 23 | Britain 's agriculture industry could be plunged into crisis early next century as fewer young people enter farming , says a survey for the Castrol company . |
| 24 | Now he could be plunged into Luton 's relegation fight as part of a swap-deal involving Chris Kamara . |
| 25 | Personally , I think that the trouble in Manchester could be traced to inadequacies regarding the stewarding arrangements . |
| 26 | Indeed , the dilemmas for professionals in their ‘ multi-professional approach ’ could be traced to paradoxes within their different understandings of the meaning of ‘ disability ’ . |
| 27 | When it is remembered that at the same time the beginnings of large-scale industry could be discerned in Japan , it can be seen that a big absolute growth in this period masks a significant change in Europe 's relative position . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the trend towards standardization could be discerned in countries where industrialization had gone furthest . |
| 29 | These could form a top tier of targets which could be developed for application to individual businesses . |
| 30 | This could be developed by reference to the following arguments : ( 1 ) History is a social necessity . |