Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The Committee also recommended that the law should be changed so that the husband could be registered as the father . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The first section also suggests that a cohesive consciousness could be registered in the construction and development of antislavery rituals and occasions and iconographic expressions or visual representations of a common antislavery identity . |
| 35 | However , only fishing vessels fulfilling the conditions laid down in section 14 of the Act of 1988 could be registered in the new register . |
| 36 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | But a static gathering was likely to amount to an obstruction , which could be cleared by the police exercising common law powers . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | In smaller seasonal or residential hotels all the office work could be centralised in the reception office , and during the quiet period on the front desk the receptionist would be expected to carry out the task of maintaining accounting and other records . |
| 41 | Alistair Asprey , Hong Kong 's Secretary for Security , forecast that all illegal Vietnamese immigrants in Hong Kong could be repatriated by 1995 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The other side of the coin was the pressure which could be exerted upon such foreign soldiers if they attempted to come home to vote in an election in opposition to a man of influence . |
| 44 | They also show that several very different types of scale could be borne by the same animal , including some complex scales immediately surrounding the gill openings . |
| 45 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 46 | Portable models could be hung from a ring on the rim so that the datum line was horizontal . |
| 47 | Or a pair of full-length curtains could be hung from a pole across the wall in front of the bow , framing the windows by day and closing off the alcove at . |
| 48 | These could be hung from a decorative pole , perhaps set well above and extending beyond the sides of the door , to enable the curtains to be drawn well back . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years . |
| 51 | Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty . |
| 52 | The case of street robbery is particularly interesting , because this is commonly the most sensitive area for registering public concern about crime and violence , itself reflected in the fact that robbery-with-violence was the only common offence for which an adult offender could be sentenced to whipping before the abolition of corporal punishment in 1948 . |
| 53 | In addition , any weaver caught using illegally dyed yarns could be sentenced to having his right arm cut off . |
| 54 | The Chamber of Deputies introduced an amendment which meant that politicians discovered making payments in order to secure votes could be sentenced to up to six years in prison . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 57 | It is not put forward as a definitive model for how coping , support and events interrelate in the genesis of psychiatric disorder , because the issues are so complex that the diagram could be redrawn in several different ways and indicate several other likely relationships . |
| 58 | But the days of aimlessly wandering on enemy beaches were over and specific targets could be raided despite their defences : targets the scientists and planners calculated as most likely to influence the war . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Now he could be plunged into Luton 's relegation fight as part of a swap-deal involving Chris Kamara . |