Example sentences of "[noun] be [that] [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that they could almost be read as things more real than the things they qualified , a pattern of eternal forms from another world , not part of the solid world of cabbages and pears — yellow and violet , blue and orange , red and green . |
| 2 | Although the images of the film belied the opinions expressed within it ( ‘ unless the camera lied , Matthew appeared to be a loveable , reasonable , biddable child capable of enjoying life within its limits ’ ) , the mood of the programme was that we could well be better without mentally handicapped people , who have an unsatisfactory life and require an unfair devotion of care . |
| 3 | In the midst of this pain and uncertainty , the wonder is that he could still produce work . |
| 4 | Another thing about being a qualified accountant is that I could always leave and do books at home . |
| 5 | The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not . |
| 6 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 7 | One of the most important corollaries of the hypothesis of the turbidity current was that we could now have the geosynclinal trough without the geosynclinal sediments . |
| 8 | The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities . |
| 9 | He considered himself on the whole a pretty steady person , but the trouble with steadiness was that it could very easily become the humdrum . |
| 10 | The trouble was that nobody could quite remember where it was exactly , but everybody knew it was around there somewhere , that 's for sure . |
| 11 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 12 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |
| 13 | Josie 's job was to suggest the changes with the most minimal effects , but the truth of the matter was that she could probably have slapped on the makeup with a billposter 's brush and the trash would be equally fooled . |
| 14 | The curious truth about his erection was that he could never remember having a very full one . |
| 15 | The central problem is that you could never measure the original position of the page with sufficient accuracy . |
| 16 | The problem was that you could never do enough . |
| 17 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 18 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 19 | The result of this change was that one could no longer rely on notions of ‘ sinfulness ’ being used with regard to certain acts . |
| 20 | The novelty of this discontent was that it could now be mobilised by the political left . |
| 21 | The problem with Orwell is that he could only think of class conflict in terms of major insurrectionary conflict . |