Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Alternatively the whole could be whitened by flooding it with alkali and the design etched on , probably with a solution of copper nitrate .
2 ( According to a circular of March 20th , 1931 , stone-breaking , stone-pounding and corn-grinding were no longer among the tasks prescribed for casuals ; none could be imposed without the approval of the Minister .
3 A proposal to abolish capital punishment was defeated ; the death penalty could be imposed for treason , aggravated murder , rape of a minor , and " crimes against peace and the safety of mankind " .
4 The hoarding at the entrance to the sliproad leading off the A643 five miles out of Mainz warned of the penalties which could be imposed on any unauthorized personnel attempting to gain illegal entry into the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant a mile further down the road .
5 Sometimes the purpose is simply intimidatory , as with the racist march , rather than an attempt to coerce persons into taking or not pursuing any particular course of action , and it is difficult to see that conditions could be imposed on a ‘ racist ’ march on this ground alone .
6 Conditions could be imposed on the planning permission which would overrule the general permission given for such a change in use by the Use Classes Order ( Class 11 is ‘ use as an office for any purpose ’ ) .
7 In actual fact it was mentioned earlier that V A T er could be imposed on fossil fuel but I think any administration .
8 But it does have the advantage of operating on a level where guilt or innocence might be easier to establish and where punishment could be imposed on a state basis .
9 Lord Sutherland told Maddison that life imprisonment was the only sentence that could be imposed on a murder charge .
10 Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders .
11 This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them .
12 In the case of the discretionary sentence there is always a notional equivalent determinate sentence which could be imposed in accord with established sentencing practice but for the current mental state of the defendant which makes him a danger to the public .
13 Where a party can only be liable if negligent , a clause such as that in White v Warwick ought to be enough to protect against liability , even if parallel liability for failure to take reasonable care could be imposed in tort and contract ( Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd [ 1945 ] KB 189 ) .
14 A cooling-off period of , say , six weeks could be imposed by application to the courts and this would allow negotiations and talks to continue .
15 Thus gall bladder muscle contractions could be recorded as changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure .
16 Any problems could be recorded for discussion .
17 This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period .
18 A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time .
19 Negative growth in Trinidad and Tobago 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) continued during 1989 and 1990 , but at a slower rate , leading to hopes that positive growth could be recorded in 1991 .
20 In the meantime a jig had been prepared such that the tailplanes could be broken under loads not dissimilar to those they would meet in the air .
21 The British Mountain Bike Record could be broken on sunday as the best in the land compete in the National Championships at Eastnor Park … in Herefordshire …
22 While the domination of the criminal market was well known within the profession nothing was done for two main reasons : first , solicitors were making a handsome living and were under no pressure to find or create alternative sources of income : and second , there appeared to be no way in which these cartels could be broken by ethical means :
23 Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy .
24 With great rapidity tea replaced coffee as the major plantation crop , and soon its acreage surpassed that of coffee at its height , for tea could be grown at more varied elevations than coffee .
25 It was perhaps unfortunate that potatoes could be grown on land which would not support other crops because this led to countries with poor rural economies turning more and more towards potatoes as their sole means of sustenance .
26 Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields .
27 By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) .
28 One problem for the Virginia planters was that tobacco could be grown in England ; James I agreed to help the company by making tobacco-growing illegal in England and , although people broke the law and tried to raise tobacco for much of the rest of the century , the American monopoly was eventually made effective .
29 In effect , we have pruned out those parts of the tree which could be grown from node 8 .
30 But it argues ministers should hesitate before going further with the publication of information that could be misused in the same way as it says occurred with published exam results .
  Next page