Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] could be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glaring at Matt , she snapped , ‘ How dare you say my ears could be used for horse blinkers ? |
| 2 | The House of Lords found that there were circumstances in which liability could be incurred for negligent misrepresentation by one person to another in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship between them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On four , there was a proposal to establish a two hundred and fifty thousand pound contingency capital sum , against which bids could be made for schemes that would bring down action grant , and I would 've su thought that scheme number four would be a bid against that two hundred and fifty thousand erm , contingency . |
| 5 | Farmers who use illegal growth hormones on their cattle could be banned for life from receiving EC subsidies , according to proposals from the European Commission . |
| 6 | Backbench dissatisfaction with this situation promoted the establishment in 1973 of a group of standing committees to which instruments could be referred for debate . |
| 7 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 8 | Microware , which traditionally serves the industrial sector , envisages its technology could be used for a variety of applications based on the OS/9 multi-tasking real time operating system . |
| 9 | The manager is no better off , seemingly , than if the employee were a sub-contractor , whose contract could be rescinded for poor performance . |
| 10 | Here the LEA had argued that a child ( J ) with dyslexia did not have special educational needs requiring special educational provision for the purposes of the 1981 Act , because he was an intelligent child whose needs could be provided for in an ordinary school . |
| 11 | It was the women who had to make hard decisions and choices as to what expenditure to cut or what bill could be postponed for yet another week . |
| 12 | The delights of the ‘ Pally ’ of your choice could be sampled for the princely sum of sixpence , and girls in page-boy cuts and boys with paraffin on their hair , shuffled around the polished wooden ‘ flerr ’ to the strains of ‘ Broadway Baby ’ ; the twinkling glass stars of the mirrors hanging from the ceiling spun them round and round , moths that nested in a box-bed in a single end , and danced at the Butterfly Ball . |
| 13 | Your life could be changed for ever . |
| 14 | Someone from a different culture , or world , visiting our society could be excused for thinking that crime was a basic , ever-present feature of our everyday lives . |