Example sentences of "he could be [vb pp] " 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 | She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . |
| 4 | AN Edinburgh man was so drunk when police stopped his car he had to be kept overnight before he could be charged , a court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | He could be granted a free transfer by FIFA when they adjudicate within a fortnight . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could be forgiven that . |
| 8 | Surely , after covering 11 wars , including Vietnam , he could be forgiven for calling it quits ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He could be forgiven one disappointing season with a track record like that . |
| 11 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 14 | The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling . |
| 15 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 16 | There had been a running buffet in the kitchen and they helped themselves when they were hungry , like gauchos on an Argentine estancia , but meals glued life together for Alan 's family and he could be heard intoning , intoning , instructing , instructing in his foggy monotone with never a word in reply , until the children were able to ‘ get down ’ . |
| 17 | In a recording played to the jury , he could be heard shouting : ‘ This gentleman has spoken about how Jesus can take away the hardness from your heart . |
| 18 | Richard Baxter stayed in the pulpit , and when he could be heard , he calmed the crowd and continued preaching . |
| 19 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 20 | The tribunal interpreted the implied mobility clause in Mr Bowles 's contract that he could be sent to work anywhere in the UK to mean that he could ‘ ordinarily ’ be sent to work anywhere in the UK . |
| 21 | He could be sent to another war zone at any time . |
| 22 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 23 | A farmer who 's admitted almost thirty cases of cruelty to animals has been warned he could be sent to prison . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It remains to consider whether the routine collection of data to permit component forecasts of HE could be justified . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He says that Mr. Slope knew that when he visited Madeline he was going against everything he believed , he knew he could be ruined and society would be scandalized , but ‘ he could not help himself ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |