Example sentences of "could be [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No words could be clawed out of the air to calm him . |
| 2 | It could be chopped out of the calendar today ( Thursday ) by the FISA World Council meeting which goes ahead in Paris this afternoon . |
| 3 | EX-JOCKEY Dermot Browne could be kicked out of the racing game today — without defending himself . |
| 4 | If they did n't pay the rent they could be turned out of the house and have to sleep in a ditch . |
| 5 | ‘ Then the loan could be repaid out of the increase in taxes . ’ |
| 6 | B and L said that the sums the receivers properly ought to pay themselves could be met out of the liquid assets in the receivers ' hands . |
| 7 | The fact Pears could be ruled out of the crunch game at Molineux is a cruel blow after his superb season . |
| 8 | His becoming a British subject put his Spanish goods at risk , and Oliver Cromwell himself took extraordinary precautions to ensure that they could be spirited out of the country and sent to England . |
| 9 | Er and these people er understood what could be got f er what little bits could be got out of the er various unemployment er acts , and er this knowledge , er plus the pressures and feelings that were able to be brought to bear , I 'm quite sure did er did benefit many er many people who who were unemployed . |
| 10 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 11 | Skinnergate and High Row will be closed to traffic on an experimental basis , despite claims that disabled shoppers could be driven out of the town . |
| 12 | IDLE and useless police could be thrown out of the force in a crackdown aimed at raising standards , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke revealed yesterday . |
| 13 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 14 | It was agreeed that " The Times " could be taken out of the room from 10 p.m. to 8 am. next morning . |
| 15 | Angelica had already decided that her money could be taken out of the petty cash and then lost in the books somewhere … and if ever they should be caught doing it , she did n't feel that it was a crime she 'd be ashamed of . |
| 16 | Eventually , control of the car could be taken out of the driver 's hands , and the brakes applied if a stationary vehicle is detected in the road ahead . |
| 17 | There was no way that Nigel , in his coffin and with the coffin in a horizontal position , could be carried out of the room and around all the corners and down the stairs to where the Volvo was waiting . |
| 18 | Many more details of this kind of exploitation of imagery could be picked out of the Miller 's Tale ; the above , however , is sufficient to make the point that the composition of the tale is extremely well organized , wasting no details , and indeed harmonizing the disparate plots in the magnificient denouement of the tale . |