Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] at any time " in BNC.

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1 A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time .
2 However , he refused to attach too much importance to these since they could be withdrawn at any time unless they were passed into law .
3 The Pathfinder Force should be on a different basis and these should consist of 45 sorties , but crews could be withdrawn at any time after the completion of 30 sorties .
4 The custody hearing could be called at any time .
5 ‘ He could be killed at any time .
6 As long as she was alive and working my reputation could be destroyed at any time .
7 This provision did not take into account the substantial number of businesses in the licensed trade which are owned and operated by bodies corporate or incorporate and not by individual persons , with the result that the licence holder was a company official who exercised little or no control over the day-to-day running of the premises , or was the manager of the premises , and whose employment could be terminated at any time , irrespective of the date of expiry of the licence , either by his own volition or by his employer 's .
8 A further refinement was that the entrance to the town 's harbour was under the furthest-out of the bridges , so that entry and exit thereto could be denied at any time by the castle 's occupants , with a great boom to be lowered .
9 Ella he had dismissed , as pleasure could be recalled at any time , while the business in hand was urgent .
10 He could be executed at any time .
11 He thought that the prairie grassland climax had been stable since the last ice age and could be restored at any time even after interference by humankind .
12 This was so notwithstanding that the field could be closed at any time and that certain people could be refused admission .
13 He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night .
14 In addition , the law lowered the voting age to 16 and established the principle that elected officials could be removed at any time and must deliver regular reports to the electorate [ for July constitutional changes see p. 39000 ] .
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