Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drop-leaf tables which could be placed against the wall when not in use developed during the pre-Commonwealth period , but the method of framed ‘ joined ’ construction necessitated the use of a securing pivot at the top and the bottom of the swing-out supporting leg . |
| 2 | This further expansion gave greater insight into the information requirements of the system ( eg for the activity Tender for services , information about tender procedures , potential contractors , standards required , etc could be relevant ) , and could be checked against the information actually available in practice , an approach that is examined further in Chapter 11 . |
| 3 | If a peace treaty were signed within the near future the danger was that Soviet pressure could be applied against a demilitarised Japan . |
| 4 | He distinguished Ex parte Good , 5 Ch.D. 46 in that there the other debtor had already been made bankrupt and hence no claim could be made against him . |
| 5 | That , I was told , led to their claim , by agreement , being reduced now from £7,171.50 to £6,439.72 but , moreover , the claim that they put forward took no account of the fact that the second day of the hearing was occupied in consideration of the mother 's claim for a contact order as to which no possible complaint could be made against the local authority . |
| 6 | These could be monitored against referral rates if each family health services authority had a minimum contract dataset ( all of the necessary contract data ) for all patients . |
| 7 | That could be determined against the local plan . |
| 8 | He held that an injunction could be granted against a stranger who had come innocently into the possession of confidential information to which he was not entitled . |
| 9 | The houses next to the river had no owners ; they were broken down and ruined , but could be defended against attack . |
| 10 | In the absence of intention or negligence , no estoppel could be raised against her . |
| 11 | Thus in the absence of either a deliberate misleading by Moorgate Mercantile or negligence on their part , no estoppel could be raised against them . |
| 12 | No estoppel could be raised against the timber firm . |
| 13 | Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light , she looked down into the courtyard . |
| 14 | Commenting on the investigation , the UK Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) noted that while aircraft could be strengthened against smaller explosions , this presented a " formidable task " . |
| 15 | under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer , I ought , I think , to give an indication of what , in my opinion , would be a permissible form of order that could be sought against a non-recipient . |
| 16 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 17 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 18 | The second is a variation — a return a system abolished in 1986 where advanced corporation tax could be offset against production taxes inside the North Sea ‘ ring fence ’ . |
| 19 | Admittedly , it would take twenty-four hours to see if the blood on the scissors matched the sample from Nicola Sharpe and if the partial fingerprints could be matched against the elimination prints from David Parkin . |
| 20 | Roosevelt reckoned that the Army was still loyal to the Shah and that a strong coalition could be mounted against Mossadeq . |
| 21 | Whether the compensatory remedy available ‘ together with ’ the restitutionary remedy , could be obtained against an accomplice who was neither a party to the transaction nor a person to whom money or property of the investor had been transferred is equally doubtful . |
| 22 | It may be that in those circumstances an injunction could be obtained against him effectively to prevent his giving his authority to advertising activities in the name of the firm which would be prohibited if done in his own name . |
| 23 | It was possible for the authorities to see him , at this level , as a figure of ‘ law and order ’ without a single criminal accusation that could be sustained against him . |
| 24 | According to Olson , it was not the beliefs of the eighteenth century essayists that led to changes in the conception of language and rationality , an assertion that could be tested against the historical evidence , but the forms they used , the alphabet and the essay . |
| 25 | Yet it is virtually impossible to think of a way in which they could be tested against one another . |
| 26 | Played entirely on handicap , it meant that a team like the O'Briens , the aggregate of whose handicaps added up to thirty-eight goals , could be pitted against a team whose goals only totalled eight . |
| 27 | Cuba and Vietnam , for their part , are bound firmly to the USSR by a mutuality of interest and outlook , but it is questionable , despite considerable dependency on the USSR , if they could be bound against their will . |
| 28 | No army could turn it back from the borders , no weapon could be wielded against it . |
| 29 | Housing expenditure on council tenants was cut but owner occupiers gained substantially , despite the limit imposed on the value of mortgage interest that could be claimed against tax ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 30 | The system would be configured so that the file database could be interrogated against a wide variety of search parameters ( eg officer name , file reference , file titles , etc ) , and the basic structure of the index entries reflected that given in the FAOR functional descriptions . |