Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | While labour could be paid poor wages they must also survive and be able to work efficiently . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 6 | The first type could be called communal and the second collective ( Lee , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal decided that no child could be considered competent in that situation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I am reasonably good with my hands and with your guidance I 'm sure my lovely old guitar could be put right . |
| 12 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 13 | ‘ There was great concern over whether the BA board could be found guilty of trading while knowingly insolvent if it carried on . |
| 14 | He hinted , however , that greater sums of money could be made available by the Community to Poland and Hungary after 1990 . |
| 15 | Then that money could be made available to areas in Scotland where coal mining has contracted , such as Midlothian . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This powder could be added direct to the pond — fish root around in it , and take it into the digestive system , which it cleanses . |
| 20 | According to a report to today 's meeting the course could be made available to nine secondary schools in Darlington . |
| 21 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 22 | Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members . |
| 23 | The last point could be put right , wasting more space , by adding a potential link field to every record . |
| 24 | PLANS to build a controversial new jail could be scrapped due to Government cost-cutting , says a Labour MP . |
| 25 | The Financial Secretary during the course of the relevant Act — Finance Act 1936 , s18 at that time — gave an assurance that only a transferor or his spouse could be made liable under what is now s739 ( HC Deb Vol 313 , cols 676 , 678 and 689 ) an assurance which was repeated by the Attorney General ( HC Deb Vol 313 , col 701 ) . |
| 26 | These lists could also be extended to include your collection of commercially produced effects , discs and tapes , and video recordings from which background sound could be dubbed direct . |
| 27 | S. eupterus could be bought young for as little as . |
| 28 | Theoretical considerations indicated that if the electric field applied to the surface could be made strong enough to confine the mobile electrons to a very thin layer near the semiconductor 's surface , with thickness comparable to the wavelength associated with the electrons there , then the electrons ' motion perpendicular to the surface would be ‘ quantised ’ . |
| 29 | For similar reasons , the committee rejected an application that barristers employed by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Government Legal Service could be given extended rights of audience . |
| 30 | First , and optimally , price could be set equal to marginal costs . |