Example sentences of "could be obtained [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If benefits could be obtained without the closely-knit EEC structure , then the whole drive towards integration might well falter or collapse . |
| 2 | Henry Erskine 's correspondents could have added to their list several other varieties of revenue officer , judicial appointments , university chairs , first appointments in the army or the navy , and where these could be obtained without purchase , advancement in rank in these services , Indian and colonial patronage , and much more . |
| 3 | When I was sufficiently recovered to be permitted nourishment I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness , which I knew could be obtained without difficulty . |
| 4 | Owing to the delays that had occurred since the marketing studies were made in 1983 and because of the attractiveness of the finished scheme , it was found that considerably higher prices could be obtained for the flats than had been originally foreseen . |
| 5 | Power could be obtained for operating these lifts by means of Oil Engines — which could be started and stopped according to the exigencies of the traffic — without loss or expense of continuous attention and waste of fuel . |
| 6 | During 1967 and 1968 a small , serviceable set with both medium and short wavebands could be obtained for as little as Sh.200/ — . |
| 7 | A more versatile one could be obtained for about £10,000 and one with a comprehensive specification for about £20,000 . |
| 8 | In Pearson v. Rose and Young ( 1950 C.A. ) the owner left his car with a dealer with instructions for the latter not to sell it but to see what offers could be obtained for it . |
| 9 | This case was followed in Stadium Finance v. Robbins ( 1962 C.A. ) where the owner left his car with a dealer with instructions to see what offers could be obtained for it . |
| 10 | But Blumlein invented a completely different microphone technique , the ‘ coincident ’ technique ( 17 ) , and showed how compatible mono recordings and ‘ 45/45 ’ stereo discs ( eventually adopted as the world standard in 1958 ) could be obtained with the technique . |
| 11 | It is true , certainly , that a number of workers who have investigated it with a view to debunking it were so impressed by the results which could be obtained with it that they became its champions instead of its detractors . |
| 12 | Any extra equipment or special materials he required could be obtained through the agency of the headquarters ' staff . |
| 13 | Local authority revenue could be obtained through either a local income tax and/or a local sales tax — in other words , through methods similar to those used in raising central government revenues . |
| 14 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 15 | However , it could be obtained through local libraries if they are persuaded to stock this wonderful work of reference . |
| 16 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 17 | At one point , in fact , everything he had recorded , both acoustically and electrically , could be obtained on LP . |
| 18 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 19 | Whether the compensatory remedy available ‘ together with ’ the restitutionary remedy , could be obtained against an accomplice who was neither a party to the transaction nor a person to whom money or property of the investor had been transferred is equally doubtful . |
| 20 | It may be that in those circumstances an injunction could be obtained against him effectively to prevent his giving his authority to advertising activities in the name of the firm which would be prohibited if done in his own name . |
| 21 | Also , following the removal of the suspended timber ground floor and the excavation of sub-floor earth so that adequate headroom could be obtained in the lower-storey bedrooms , it was necessary to install a continuous waterproof membrane below the new concrete floor slab in order to prevent penetration of the construction by rising damp . |
| 22 | ( Catalogues of the Great Exhibition of 1851 commented that although the black walnut of North America produced wood which was of a rich purple-brown and could be obtained in very large plants , it was ‘ but little employed by the cabinet makers ’ in Great Britain ) . |
| 23 | On Aug. 7 the Dublin High Court prevented 14 students from providing information within Ireland about abortion services which could be obtained in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | If the meme is a scientific idea , its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists ; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals . |
| 25 | This ‘ hands-off ’ status meant social security money could be obtained by charging residents , who would claim it back from the DSS , but staff for the homes were provided by the health authority 's mental handicap unit through a separate agreement . |
| 26 | Again ? such data could be obtained by further inspection of the same set of statistical data that can be obtained from the Department of Education and Science . |
| 27 | They felt that a much truer picture of people 's lives could be obtained by these methods of data collection than by the more formal survey , though they knew full well that all methods had something to contribute to sociological understanding . |
| 28 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |
| 29 | They believed that anything could be obtained by force and were determined to exact the last drop of blood . |
| 30 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |