Example sentences of "[adj] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This could be difficult . |
| 32 | And even if this could be got round , extra sums would be needed for redundancy payments , investment and modernisation . |
| 33 | ‘ There has been a whole series of events in the last year going against the hill sheep farmer , and this could be one of the final straws . ’ |
| 34 | Wandering around the Muses ' hometown , Newport , Rhode Island , I begin to believe this could be heaven — beautiful colonial architecture , quaint , toytown paint-schemes , big gardens , porches , wide , empty streets . |
| 35 | This could be the girl whom the Yard were looking for , and he had better do everything very quickly indeed , including finding his Chief , who would then want to find his Chief Constable and notify Scotland Yard . |
| 36 | Nevertheless , Michael Bailey believes that this could be the beginning of the end of Asian drive fisheries , and that by working with people , with an understanding of their culture and needs , cooperation can result . |
| 37 | This could be improved with , for example , a peacekeeping fund , a staff college for training peacekeeping officers , and special UN units earmarked in national armies , leading to a permanent peacekeeping force . |
| 38 | All this could be done by giving a life estate to the head of the family ; with the remainder to his sons successively in tail-male , with remainder to the daughters in tail , subject to a rentcharge in favour of the life tenant 's widow upon his death , and in favour of any other persons desired to be benefited ; and with power to the trustees to create long leases in the property for the purpose of charging the lease in order to provide portions for younger sons and daughters who did not inherit the land . |
| 39 | ‘ This could be your lucky night , ’ she adds , laughing . |
| 40 | This could be because Carlo ( left ) has made a career of clothes . |
| 41 | The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks . |
| 42 | This could be replicated , at least superficially , by boiling in a concentrated caustic soda solution to give a white patination ; the addition of a few rusty nails would then turn the patina brown . |
| 43 | This could be resolved by assuming that all citizens impliedly consent to those touchings which are incidental to ordinary everyday life and travel ; but the judicial preference seems to be to create an exception for ‘ all physical contact which is generally acceptable in the ordinary conduct of daily life ’ . |
| 44 | The sentencing decision in Billam ( 1986 ) marks out some of the more serious varieties of sexual assault , and this could be used as a basis for introducing a new scheme of three or four graded offences : there are precedents for this in other countries . |
| 45 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
| 46 | ‘ You would n't think , would you , ’ he added , ‘ that this could be another murder ? ’ |
| 47 | The need , however , was for a permanent body to deal with matters affecting Nonconformity , to encourage unity amongst the various denominations or at least to cut down on needless competition , to present a united Nonconformist ‘ witness ’ when required and to give a ‘ Nonconformist ’ answer to political questions whenever possible , that is , when this could be done without alienating the Methodists , especially the Wesleyans . |
| 48 | This could be caused either by a genetic change which altered the relevant attaching enzymes , or by a genetic change which altered the anticodon of a tRNA molecule without altering the attachment site for the amino acid ( or vice versa ) ; such mutations do occur as rare variants . |
| 49 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 50 | Many Italians believe this could be the most decisive poll since 1948 when the Christian Democrats fought the scare of a communist takeover , and again in 1976 when it was feared the charismatic Enrico Berlinguer would win under the banner of Eurocommunism . |
| 51 | ‘ This could be a day of destiny for Helmut Kohl , ’ wrote the popular Bild newspaper before the results were known . |
| 52 | This could be in his favour , as the penalties for failing to hit the targets at the par-fives are known to all television viewers . |
| 53 | Some months ago I suggested that this could be done in a new version of Question Time . |
| 54 | The reason for this could be that the course for this year 's Olympic marathon in Barcelona fails the two main criteria . |
| 55 | This could be a maxim that all political consorts should bear in mind . |
| 56 | There are suggestions this could be achieved in Britain by joining fundholding surgeries . |
| 57 | The merit of this could be gauged from an observation by a local challenger , Steve Webster , who scored a fine 73 for a 117 overnight total . |
| 58 | This could be both through research work and through the organisation of more lengthy round-table discussions , of the kind held at Uig last October , between representatives of the various organisations engaged in the development of the area and some experts from outside . |
| 59 | This could be considerable particularly in the outlying areas . |
| 60 | A number of these jobs , especially those involving stock , required two persons to carry them out and this could be a problem on the family farm . |