Sentence examples for it could be locked from inspiring English sources

Its primary assets, as you'll recall: It could be locked by pressing the left navigation key and then the star button; it came pre-loaded with a deceptively time-consuming game called Snake; and it could stand on its butt and do a vibrating boogie to the Mexican Hat Dance.

That said, Mr. Calabrese and other analysts said that DoCoMo could have a legitimate concern that if it loses a bid for AT&T Wireless, it could be locked out of an equity stake in the United States, and have no relationship with a network here.

That only leaves one other heat sink: the deep oceans below 700 metres, where it could be locked up in the deep oceans without affecting other parts of the climate.And indeed, most of the extra heat does go into the oceans, which is not surprising given that they cover two thirds of Earth's surface and have a much greater capacity to absorb heat than the air does.

The programmers were eventually able to transition to the debug Saturn they had received, but the process was difficult and the game had a very low frame rate at first, before it could be locked at 20 FPS.

If true, the age of Earth's magnetic field and other secrets of its interior could be locked in alien dust.

Plus, it offers a new way of securing the content in apps – if someone who was not you gained access to your phone and was able to unlock it, all the apps could be locked down automatically simply because that person, as determined by the software, was not you.

Despite playing down the rejection, he described it as "bizarre" that people could be locked up for years and then not receive any compensation.

But regardless of the ins and outs of the case, to me it's just insane that someone could be locked up that long in the county jail without a conviction.

But this clause warns that anyone who was aware of it and knowingly breached it would also be in contempt of court and could be locked up or have their assets seized.

(The Everetts lived in a thatch hut that was slightly larger and more sophisticated than the huts of the Pirahã; it had walls and a storage room that could be locked).

It could rotate the shell 45° in either direction, could be locked in any position, and was supplemented with holes and a peg for exact replication of the 15° internal, 0° neutral (toes up), and the 15° external positions.