Sentence examples for could become locked from inspiring English sources

Without a regional level of oversight to knock heads together, more councils could become locked into long disputes over housing and as a result, new homes will take longer to deliver.

Too few runs of a single model have been made, he explains, to do more than hint at how a volcanic cooling could become locked in for centuries.

It has been suggested that CSD may produce a rapid sensitization at first sensory neurons which could become "locked-in" and, therefore, would not be influenced by a later reduction in sensory traffic, like that induced by the injection of lignocaine into the trigeminal ganglion [139].

Societies and cultures become locked on to ideas.

But Islam has become locked down to an extraordinary degree.

And the window of time remaining to act is growing smaller: delay could mean that warming becomes "locked in".

Finding that different principal cells are best locked to different rhythms raises a fascinating neurocomputational question concerning the mechanisms by which individual and presumably neighboring cells could become phase locked to different rhythms.

Finally, reviewer #3 asks important questions concerning the mechanisms by which individual and presumably neighboring cells could become phase locked to different rhythms.

That's why my knee became locked on the spot and I could not straighten my knee on the court.

How could the arms race be headed off before the world became locked into what Churchill called "the balance of terror"?

If a major fraction of the nutrient becomes locked up by buried wood, the forest growth could be severely limited after some decades so that the strategy becomes unsustainable.