Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] could [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract . |
| 2 | On the statement emphasising that she could still be Queen , he said : ‘ The situation is very volatile . |
| 3 | When Al Pacino made Kate Nelligan squeeze her feet into gold stilettos throughout intercourse in Frankie and Johnny , the audience knew instinctively that it could n't be love . |
| 4 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 5 | Tretorn , in filing its complaint , believes that the EC Commission 's lawyers may have missed the significance of the word in dispute ( ‘ type ’ ) because the LTA 's previous ball agreement , ( ie the one that the EC Commission was asked to consider ) contained no written reference to pressureless tennis balls , therefore ensuring that it could not be party to such vital information . |
| 6 | He was avid for news of how it was all going , and regretting that he could n't be part of it . |
| 7 | My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! " |
| 8 | If she could n't be Peter she was quite prepared , once she 'd mastered the technicalities , to hide behind a reflection . |
| 9 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 10 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 11 | And it could n't be starter Captain Keith Brown , who allegedly rejected the possibility of using a different system TWO MONTHS before the race . |
| 12 | It was n't the van arriving for he would have heard the engine , and it could n't be Joe Maitland . |
| 13 | The cycle chain came off twice on the three miles back to the van , but I could n't be cross . |
| 14 | Uu ; but it could also be AABBCC … |
| 15 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 16 | When she could just be Lily Greene , on holiday in Paris . |