Example sentences of "could [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepted that the function of the court was to construe the actual words enacted by Parliament so that in no circumstances could the court attach to words a meaning that they were incapable of bearing . |
| 2 | Under these circumstances could the court refuse to enforce the exclusion clause in respect of the personal injury , but , subject to the requirement of reasonableness , enforce it in relation to the property damage ? |
| 3 | What could the problem have been ? |
| 4 | If , could the problem be overcome by defining the Greater York area in the way I suggested ? |
| 5 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 6 | How could the others be differentiated ? |
| 7 | He believed that only by tying Germany to the other liberal-democratic states could the country 's nascent democracy be strengthened . |
| 8 | But then , one may ask , why could the members of the assembly not simply undo the decisions if and when they come to regret them ? |
| 9 | How could the Prince have known of Lady Eleanor 's death so early ? |
| 10 | How could the ombudsman improve on that ? |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 12 | This is simplified and implausible ( how could the Spartans exercise influence over Athenian politics ? ) but the grain of truth is that Themistokles was indeed out of favour at Athens by the end of the 470s , when he was ostracized ( Diod. xi.54 ) . |
| 13 | Could the bursts of gamma rays detected by astronomers over the past decade , and still not accounted for , possibly be white holes ? |
| 14 | Nor could the courts cope , and there would be a deterioration in the public 's perception of the police as a result of the disjuncture with lay conceptions of legality . |
| 15 | If St Paul could appeal to Caesar , so could the bishops opposed to Paul of Samosata . |
| 16 | Keith Aitken examines the argument ‘ Having no challengers , capitalism now has no mirror in which to examine itself ’ Could the system which tossed British economic policy to the winds of avarice , be described as stable ? |
| 17 | Could the system which , one day last September , tossed two years of British economic policy to the winds of avarice , be described as stable ? |
| 18 | How could the company treat its own in such a shabby fashion ? |
| 19 | Could the processes of naming and discourse have been as conveniently managed by a name for every individual , the names of classes , and the idea of classification , would never have existed . |
| 20 | Could the Montreal Protocol process make further inroads into laboratory shelves ? |
| 21 | The home was the quintessential bourgeois world , for in it , and only in it , could the problems and contradictions of his society be forgotten or artificially eliminated . |
| 22 | Could the law do more ? |
| 23 | If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries . |
| 24 | If you mean , could the law have got him , no . |
| 25 | Could the person who was dealing with Stavanger 's post be using the address also for himself — or herself ? |
| 26 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 27 | The effect of those actions devastated the tax and meant that in no circumstances could the level be low enough to make it justifiable and acceptable . |
| 28 | Could the Greater London Council lawfully cut tube fares ? |
| 29 | So could the Portfolio work its passage in the average pocket ? |
| 30 | You could , could the window tre the cleaner get through that window he said yes , but she 'll have to , he 'll have to force it , she said oh I do n't want it forcing , no , somebody at the shop in the greengrocers rooted through the phone book , eventually got her daughter 's phone number in Urmston , phoned for her and her daughter come down |