Example sentences of "[noun] could be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 2 | It was in fact somewhat of a surprise to see cadet editions of a few of the Hornblower novels published for readers in the early and mid-teens , since neither Forester 's open , smooth narrative style nor his approach to sex and violence could be considered exacting or improper where young readers were concerned . |
| 3 | Interest was aroused when the University of Cambridge declared that it was prepared , if the necessary funds could be made available , to consider the establishment of an Institute of Criminology . |
| 4 | While labour could be paid poor wages they must also survive and be able to work efficiently . |
| 5 | If the tagger indicated that a word was a noun then the non-noun lexical entries could be given reduced priority by the ANLT . |
| 6 | Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set . |
| 7 | The VT2X polypeptide was expressed at slightly higher levels and had an increased DNA binding affinity as compared to the VT2 version ( data not shown ) ; otherwise these two proteins could be considered identical . |
| 8 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 9 | Crews were even dispatched to determine if any of the aircraft could be made airworthy . |
| 10 | We will examine whether certain regulations affecting individual citizens within their own homes could be made advisory , rather than mandatory . |
| 11 | She had turned her big dining room into a study ; there each boy had his own place at the big felt-covered table , — books could be left undisturbed . |
| 12 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 13 | The first type could be called communal and the second collective ( Lee , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | In the Navigation 's case the ground floor food preparation area was obtained by converting an old-fashioned and unwanted small private bar : similar areas suitable for conversion can not be guaranteed in more than 50 per cent of the units , though equivalent areas could be made available in the remainder through ‘ building out ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention . |
| 16 | The Select Committee on the Obscene Publications Act had stressed the importance of considering the " dominant effect " of the whole work : The contrary view , under which a work could be judged obscene by reference to isolated passages without considering the total effect , would , if taken to its logical conclusion , deprive the reading public of the works of Shakespeare , Chaucer , Fielding and Smollett , except in expurgated editions . |
| 17 | The Court of Appeal decided that no child could be considered competent in that situation . |
| 18 | All around my rooftop pavilion could be seen other fragmentary remains of the Jahanpanah which Ibn Battuta would have known : a series of fragile mediaeval islands standing out amid the sea of modern sprawl . |
| 19 | I am reasonably good with my hands and with your guidance I 'm sure my lovely old guitar could be put right . |
| 20 | Attitudes could be elicited aplenty and could , contra the views of many of the early survey researchers who thought them unlikely material for social research in being basically subjective opinions , provide valuable data if suitably measured . |
| 21 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 22 | ‘ There was great concern over whether the BA board could be found guilty of trading while knowingly insolvent if it carried on . |
| 23 | He hinted , however , that greater sums of money could be made available by the Community to Poland and Hungary after 1990 . |
| 24 | Then that money could be made available to areas in Scotland where coal mining has contracted , such as Midlothian . |
| 25 | It suggests that huge amounts of extra money could be made available for the homeless , improving the condition of houses and tackling the growing shortage of affordable homes for rent if local housing companies were created . |
| 26 | Many of these interactions could be made automatic were it not for the basic need for a human presence for the social/ economic reasons mentioned above and because the human operator has to act as the ultimate back-stop when things go badly wrong . |
| 27 | Judaism and Islam could be called polytheistic religions in the sense that they do contain traditions that represent Jews and Moslems as called upon to choose one of several gods and follow Him to the exclusion of others . |
| 28 | If the population of burrowing earthworms could be increased five-fold ( and there is no reason why it should not ) , the natural improvement in soil structure and fertility could transform the productivity of our land and save us enormous expense . |
| 29 | Attempts to cheat the system , however , by discharging a patient briefly every three months could be thwarted by insisting that the period of discharge must last at least two weeks before the admission could be considered separate . |
| 30 | When I first started to explore Scotland by train , there were long spacious carriages , first and second class , with a restaurant and buffet , a guard 's van where bikes could be carried free of charge , and a service that transported you to the Highlands through snow drifts that would bury a car . |