Example sentences of "he could [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could be sent to another war zone at any time . |
| 2 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 3 | A farmer who 's admitted almost thirty cases of cruelty to animals has been warned he could be sent to prison . |
| 4 | I du n no , I du n no whether he 's erm he really could be , I mean he could be the thing is he could be compared to a hobo . |
| 5 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 6 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 7 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 8 | However , over scientific matters he could be roused to considerable passion and was often tactless . |
| 9 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 10 | He could be apprenticed to his mother 's brother , surely . |
| 11 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 12 | Until he could be restored to them , as Regent , they required an acting Regent . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I have ; but when he confronts Richard he will be told that he could be taken to court ; he 's been at me for years . |