Example sentences of "he could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hatred of the absentee landlord , for instance , fitted the moral structure of the pueblo because he could be felt as an intruder from an alien city world : hence the emotional content of Andalusian village anarchism . |
| 2 | If the doctor helped Mr Mansur , he could be charged under a new Michigan law that makes it a crime to assist a person to commit suicide . |
| 3 | In his anxiety on finding out that he could be deprived of his commission , Scott had rushed into print , without properly considering the effect of his letter on others . |
| 4 | Surely , after covering 11 wars , including Vietnam , he could be forgiven for calling it quits ? |
| 5 | No doubt he could be forgiven for an inadvertent omission , but women more than most know that life , like history , is made up of inadvertencies . |
| 6 | Request : Posing as a female post-grad English student , we wrote to ask Parliament 's Mr Fixit whether he could be questioned on his name and how it affected him . |
| 7 | He could be sent to another war zone at any time . |
| 8 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 9 | A farmer who 's admitted almost thirty cases of cruelty to animals has been warned he could be sent to prison . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
| 12 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |
| 13 | That day Antrim were forced to play without the injured Terence McNaughton , and he 's again a reluctant spectator today , though he could be pressed into action at some stage . |
| 14 | After hearing the boy 's story of how he had been ‘ neglected and abused ’ by his mother Rachel , judge Thomas Kirk told him he could be adopted by his foster parents George and Lizabeth Russ . |
| 15 | Here , he could be exploited by elements already working against the central government . |
| 16 | President Georges Pompidou of France refused to come unless he could be seated above Haile Selassie and Francophone heads of state ; the Shah refused , so , in a huff , Pompidou sent his prime minister instead . |
| 17 | The youngster played a major role in looking after him and ensuring he could be cared for at home . |
| 18 | Britain 's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately . |
| 19 | After all , he knew Mr Parnham better than she did and he did n't look as if he could be fooled at all . |
| 20 | It is true that if Mr. Tully fails to comply with the order of Buckley J. he could be punished for contempt after a hearing in open court and subject to review by an appellate court . |
| 21 | If he issues the injunction and Mr Farquharson ignores it , he could be jailed for up to two years for contempt . |
| 22 | If he breaks yesterday 's court order , he could be jailed for up to two years for contempt of court . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 25 | He could be gone from the town . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 28 | Neither should he be forced to remain in hospital when he could be treated in the community . |
| 29 | At one time execution might be made against the debtor 's person , and he could be kept in prison indefinitely in default of payment . |
| 30 | Although he could be seen at rehearsals of his shows in small English towns , Tiller was an international name now . |