Example sentences of "could be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 2 | To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty . |
| 3 | It can put pressure on her family , on her children , er put pressure on her at work in her job situation and she could be under a lot of harassment . |
| 4 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 5 | CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents . |
| 6 | This could be as a result of considerations of national security . |
| 7 | Right I mean it could be as a matter of a last resort yeah . |
| 8 | We worked out yesterday that probably the overspend in er client services could be between a hundred and eighty two thousand and half a million , not four hundred depending on which scenario you take . |
| 9 | John Stuart Mill had claimed ( Rogers 1964 : 238 ) that pleasure could be of a carnal nature or of a ‘ higher ’ kind . |
| 10 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 11 | Judging from its appearance , he doubted that whoever lived there could be of a benign character . |
| 12 | The precise nature of neutrophil chemoattractants in these disorders is unknown and they could be of a diverse nature including microbial , chemical ( including prostanoids ) or indeed in ulcerative colitis the damaged colonocytes themselves . |
| 13 | It could be for a night , or a day , or longer — for example , a week or two weeks . |
| 14 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
| 15 | This could be for a television documentary about the town or for a town pageant . |
| 16 | Oh could be for a signpost , yes it could indeed . |
| 17 | well time management could be for a lot of people |
| 18 | This could be on a regular basis , for example once a week , or could be available in an emergency . |
| 19 | This communal support for older people in early modern England could be on a remarkably generous scale . |
| 20 | And I may not need your services now , so you could be on a train back to Frankfurt tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | Registration could be on a site or company basis and will allow companies to use a recognised logo . |
| 22 | Anyone taking out a fixed-rate mortgage now , therefore , could be on a winner . |
| 23 | Add legal fees and a new valuation and you could be on a loser . |
| 24 | Some appointments could be on a representative basis where there are sectional interests , but in other cases the wider public interest would need to be safeguarded . |
| 25 | On the other hand by following the grain your pattern could be on a definite slant , which would be very irritating . |
| 26 | For example initial expenditure by both partners could be on a first phase of access and servicing , with the grant receivable by virtue of that expenditure reinvested in a second phase , and so one . |
| 27 | you could be on a rough patch or bumpy patch whatever yes yes |
| 28 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 29 | Thus a LECTURER could be at a ‘ head of department , ‘ course tutor ’ and ‘ tutor ’ level ( we used the term involuted relationship in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 30 | The storage could be at a centralised location or decentralised — distributed across a number of sites . |