Example sentences of "could be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Zeebrugge families challenged the coroner in the High Court Lord Justice Bingham ‘ tentatively ’ accepted that a company could be guilty . |
| 2 | Judge Michael Mander has now ordered an inquiry because her bosses could be guilty of contempt of court . |
| 3 | As will be seen in Chapter four , those who , like Frederick Shaw , try to by-pass the law by publishing a directory or ‘ contact magazine ’ , could be guilty of publishing an obscene article , living off the earnings of prostitution , and conspiring to corrupt public morals . |
| 4 | Morland J. regarded the decision as made per incuriam and , therefore , not binding upon him , on the ground that , by reason of section 19 of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 69 ) , a local authority could be guilty of corruption . |
| 5 | Injunctions were issued against The Observer and The Guardian newspapers to prevent them from publishing extracts from Peter Wright 's book and the Court of Appeal , overruling the judge at first instance , held that although publication by The Independent newspaper and others could not be a breach of those injunctions nevertheless , since they knew of their issue , they could be guilty of contempt of court if their publication interfered with the course of justice . |
| 6 | certificate , which falsely stated the car 's approxi-mate age , were shown by a car dealer to a potential buyer of the car , that false statement would be associated with the sale or supply of the car and the car dealer could be guilty , R. v. Coventry City Justices , ex. p . |
| 7 | In Cottee v. Douglas Seaton ( Used Cars ) Ltd. ( 1972 D.C. ) the court had to decide to what extent an honest man could be guilty under the section . |
| 8 | It accepted that someone could be guilty even though unaware of the falsity of the description and even though the description was applied to the goods by another person . |
| 9 | Who would suspect that a pious nun like myself could be guilty of such an act ? ’ |
| 10 | The criminal law , however , did recognise that an accused could be guilty only if he acted in a grossly negligent fashion . |
| 11 | Therefore , a person could be guilty of the most serious non-fatal assault but not of the lesser assault ! |
| 12 | In other words , he made it plain that to that extent the second appellant could be guilty on the basis of concert . |
| 13 | If that were so , one accused might be guilty on the basis of concert but the other could be guilty also on the basis only of his own actings . |
| 14 | This could be long-term spouse abuse , or equally an abusive parent/child situation which resulted in a shift of power with the child becoming the carer . |
| 15 | Waddle , Beardsley and Rush , however , could be long-term targets for manager Kevin Keegan providing Newcastle avoid relegation . |
| 16 | Then come the foreign exchange needs of net exporters , followed by the needs of enterprises that could be net exporters if they were not obliged to give priority to the home market . |
| 17 | For all the kids care he could be Goofy , hamming it up for Mickey Mouse . |
| 18 | Indeed , that only underlined the moral : pop music could be playful , and possibly even subversive , but nobody would pretend any more that it was anything but business . |
| 19 | They could be copper wires . |
| 20 | Indeed , there could be peaceful co-existence between different political systems . |
| 21 | The organisation is divided into three ( these could be geographical divisions — say 3 shops , or functional divisions , which could be production , accounts and sales — or product based divisions ) . |
| 22 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 23 | Without a true understanding of the underlying nature of your illness , the consequences could be devastating . |
| 24 | So the ruling by the Supreme Court in Washington could be devastating for the industry . |
| 25 | If Smith were to fall under a bus — or , let us be blunt , drop dead during a European heads of government meeting — the effect on the nation 's stability and standing could be devastating . |
| 26 | If a confrontation gets out of hand , the damage to agency/client relations could be devastating . |
| 27 | Thus , the correlation between disaffection and bad schooling should never be treated lightly as the long term consequences in society could be devastating . |
| 28 | As the narratives of the siege of Rouen , pursued by Henry V between July 1418 and January 1419 , underline , the results , both for the civilians who had sought safety there and for the garrison who had led the resistance , could be devastating . |
| 29 | Nor was conflict within Merovingian society the sole cause of destruction : the passage of an army heading for campaigns outside the Frankish kingdom could be devastating , as the Septimanian expedition of 585 revealed . |
| 30 | But a much smaller rise could be devastating for many coastal areas and islands . |