Example sentences of "and could only be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Khalid Hussain ; CA ( Lloyd , Glidewell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 5 Oct 1989 Under r 18 of the Immigration Appeals Procedure Rules 1972 , the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal considering whether or not to hear oral evidence to determine whether there were compassionate reasons for a person convicted of murder to be given entry clearance was a matter of discretion and could only be attacked on Wednesbury principles or other recognised rules . |
| 2 | The route was very tight and could only be passed using small cylinders . |
| 3 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 4 | ‘ for years before her paper pica appeared , the patient recalled eating a special type of mud which contained a distinctive smell and could only be obtained by digging in a certain area of a particular field . ’ |
| 5 | The French chef from Montreal was not there , I soon discovered , because he was a she , and could only be found in the women 's changing room . |
| 6 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 7 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 8 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 9 | The committee applied to strike out his claim as an abuse of the process of the court on the ground that their decision was made in the exercise of a public law duty , and could only be challenged by way of judicial review . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) That although the privilege against self-incrimination subsisted and could only be removed or altered by Parliament , there was no reason to allow a defendant in civil proceedings to rely on it , thus depriving a plaintiff of his rights , where the defendant 's own protection was adequately secured by other means ( post , pp. 350B , 352C–D , 354B , 355B , 357F–G , 358F–G , 359A–B , F–G , H , 360A ) . |
| 11 | It was subject to a ‘ Test of Acceptability ’ — the fifth principle — and could only be confirmed and implemented after the British government had satisfied itself that it was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |
| 12 | Gaining an overview of that risk was very costly and could only be achieved by ordering credit reports , of whatever format , on a case-by-case basis . |
| 13 | Fore-edge paintings had been put on books for centuries , but William Edwards was the first binder to paint landscape scenes on fore-edges which were hidden by gilt and could only be viewed by fanning the leaves of the book . |
| 14 | The effect is somewhat idealistic and could only be achieved where motivation and performance were at a very low level to begin with . |
| 15 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) noted that A. ingolfiana and A. norvegica were very similar and could only be distinguished from one another by the following characters ; the shape of the genital plate which has two branches in A. ingolfiana but in A. norvegica the abradial branch — the one on the ventral interradial side of the genital plate is reduced and broadened , while the radial shields which are more rounded on the proximal abradial — outer side in A. ingolfiana while in A. norvegica this side is more angular . |
| 16 | Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be . |
| 17 | I can only add that the abolition of free eye tests is the worst false economy imaginable , and could only be contemplated by such a short-sighted Government . |
| 18 | Lead coffins were very rare in colonial America , and could only be afforded by the very rich . |
| 19 | Ascaris Host : Pig Site : Small intestine Species : Ascaris suum Distribution : Worldwide A. suum is by far the largest nematode of the pig ; the females are up to 40.0 cm long , and could only be confused with Macrocanthorhyncus where this occurs . |
| 20 | All the ingenious forms of longer-term borrowing undertaken by the United States from overseas monetary authorities merely changed the form of these liabilities , and could only be a stop-gap . |