Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 2 | It was generally agreed that this legislation could only be viewed as punitive , particularly in an area such as West Belfast , which is devoid of any real opportunities for employment . |
| 3 | Apprehension over Japanese revival was not as great as the Soviet fears over a German revival but the trend of American policy towards Japan could only be regarded as alarming from the Soviet perspective . |
| 4 | Diamonds on the other hand were too hard , and during the Classical and Early Medieval periods could only be mounted as natural crystals , in which guise they served as symbols of hardness and strength , but not yet as signs of conspicuous wealth . |
| 5 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 6 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 7 | There a reception committee awaited her , at the head of which was a young man who could only be described as beautiful . |
| 8 | Jan Wolf , husband of Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf , who was Al Rouse 's partner on K2 in 1986 and who , like him , so tragically died , managed an ascent of Lubyanka in conditions that could only be described as green . |
| 9 | Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain , but something lively and piquant redeemed them . |
| 10 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 11 | If the situation in the United States is less than perfect , then the state of affairs on the other side of the Panama Canal could only be described as disastrous . |
| 12 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 13 | And the conditions under which they are kept could justly be described as intolerable in any society . |
| 14 | While nothing new has been recorded ( and conditions could generally be described as lean ) , it is worth noting for future reference that the following were climbable : |
| 15 | If the document is provided merely to cover the seller , it could scarcely be regarded as fair and reasonable in most cases . |
| 16 | Early gains , however , could not be exploited as German resistance stiffened . |
| 17 | Since the overall budget had n't increased , the Making Belfast Work money could not be regarded as additional to that budget . |
| 18 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the finishing processes could not be regarded as piece-work . |
| 20 | Indeed , at the Home Office Press Conference held to discuss the catastrophic crime figures for April to June 1990 , John Patten attempted to distance himself from the research by asking if Field was the member of his staff ‘ who wore an earring ’ ( Guardian 27.10.90 ) before stating that the work was exploratory and could not be regarded as definitive . |
| 21 | BOSNIA 'S Muslim president yesterday suspended temporarily his participation in international peace talks in New York , saying he could not be involved as long as Serbs continued their offensive in eastern Bosnia and Sarajevo . |
| 22 | It claimed that very few of those who had died in the violence had been killed by traditional weapons , that 75 per cent of deaths were caused by bullets and 20 per cent by hacking with weapons which could not be described as traditional . |
| 23 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |
| 24 | The designers employed by G.W. Fashions most definitely could not be described as avant-garde . ’ |
| 25 | That was the last mild sensation of the evening , for the final one , still to come , certainly could not be described as mild , and occurred somewhat after midnight . |
| 26 | He could not be described as handsome , and , in later years , with his weight fluctuating to in excess of fifteen stone through his appetite for junkish food between pictures , he showed signs of a middle-aged spread ; not being tall , at five feet , nine inches , it tends to be obvious . |
| 27 | Version ( b ) could not be described as contrastive or emphatic . |
| 28 | As such , they could not be considered as autonomous agents . |
| 29 | ‘ From the case cited [ Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 ] in the course of the argument it is shown that the principle has been laid down that , where one exacts money from another and it turns out that although acquiesced in for years such exaction is illegal , the money may be recovered as money had and received , since such payment could not be considered as voluntary so as to preclude its recovery . |
| 30 | Consequently there was a witch-hunt for any books that could possibly be construed as sexist , racist , colonialist , etc , which were fallen upon with all the fury of a Puritan iconoclast . |