Example sentences of "could be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was accepted privately within the industry that their ‘ promotional ’ pricing could be below cost in order to compete with gas ( precisely the kind of uneconomic cross-subsidy of which critics accused them ) . |
| 2 | So , if you are the other side of the horizon , away from the VOR transmitter , you could be below the transmission and not receive any signals . |
| 3 | It could be through an art-form or simply by a love of nature . |
| 4 | Movement of a chemical signal could be through the xylem , although this would require a reversal in the direction of transpirational water flow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jason Nicolle also won in four games , against Raymond Schaffer , but had to fight back from a game and 6-7 down in the second , and his place in the sudden-death phase at the weekend could be under threat from Parke . |
| 7 | More than 150,000 children are already educated in grant-maintained schools but , if the prediction is correct , two thirds of all state school pupils in England and Wales could be under the new system . |
| 8 | Thus the father could be under pressure at 40 years of age , again at 50 years and finally at 60 years . |
| 9 | Any one of us could be under the same sort of misapprehension without even realizing it . |
| 10 | The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US . |
| 11 | PETER Scudamore 's seven-season monopoly on the champion jump jockeys ' title could be under threat , according to the bookies . |
| 12 | Construction is expected to begin next year and the first experiments could be under way as early as 1998 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 15 | Whether these figures could be under siege may depend on the weather . |
| 16 | According to a report by Dr Chris Van Sway of the government funded Dutch Butterfly Foundation , the Netherlands has lost 15 of its 63 species and 10 more could be under threat . |
| 17 | ULSTER cattle herds could be under threat from ‘ imported ’ bovine diseases which may not show themselves for several years . |
| 18 | International issues could be under the aegis of a separately elected British Parliament which would replace the House of Lords . |
| 19 | JOBS could be under threat at a NorthEast cigarette factory if Labour comes to power and bans tobacco advertising , a company chairman has warned . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents . |
| 23 | We saw in Chapters 4 and 5 just how effective both the coordinating committee and the schools ' library committees could be as bodies which handled the nuts and bolts of the project and converted aims and objectives into a reality . |
| 24 | This could be as a result of considerations of national security . |
| 25 | that could be as valu those issues which have come from members could be addressed I think we might achieve what we 're after . |
| 26 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 27 | Right I mean it could be as a matter of a last resort yeah . |
| 28 | She could be as in either . |
| 29 | To think intellectually about pirates would be to categorise : ‘ Ah yes ! ’ one might say , ‘ Drama about pirates could be about ships at sea or fighting or finding treasure or drinking rum , etc . ’ |
| 30 | Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood , but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised . |