Example sentences of "could be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a private activity there could be no objection to Christian members calling their fellow-believers to prayer , and I suppose that I and fellow-members of the British Humanist Association could have similarly organized a non-official meeting . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | There could be no doubt at all that he was dead . |
| 4 | But surely , she reasoned , where there could be no reason , surely sex does n't have to bring with it the pain of need , longing , the fear of rejection ? |
| 5 | I tiptoed to find a sacred vessel to keep your hair in , mouth humming with its knowing:you were here , with me , loving me , kissing me , holding me and could be no closer . |
| 6 | He was smiling again , so there could be no harm in telling him . |
| 7 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 8 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 9 | The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy . |
| 10 | Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble . |
| 11 | There could be no more concrete evidence of our commitment to that group . ’ |
| 12 | For him , from the moment you entered the race , there could be no respite . |
| 13 | There could be no hint of criticism on the part of the court if she felt she wanted nothing more to do with it . |
| 14 | That message , and yesterday 's speech , contrast sharply with previous conference speeches in which the Prime Minister insisted that there could be no let-up in the long Thatcherite march . |
| 15 | It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone . |
| 16 | But with India there could be no ‘ consolidation ’ ; its hundreds of millions were , necessarily , left out of the cosy computations of the Imperialists ; and its membership of a community of independent yet united states was beyond the power of imagination to conceive . |
| 17 | Monetarists argued that as long as the government refused to increase the money supply , even if unemployment was increasing , there could be no inflation . |
| 18 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 19 | Without writers there could be no new ideas about what cinema could do , and without new ideas there could be no sense of British cinema having a purpose . |
| 20 | Without writers there could be no new ideas about what cinema could do , and without new ideas there could be no sense of British cinema having a purpose . |
| 21 | There are also fears that a genetic mutation — over which there could be no control — could suddenly produce a GEM with some nasty trick up its sleeve . |
| 22 | There could be no more potent proxy for a new economic order in the nineties . |
| 23 | He rang me last night , very kindly , principally I think to assure me that there could be no doubt . |
| 24 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 25 | He saw no inconsistency between such temporary infatuations and the matrimonial ideal he presented now to Hooton , as he had already discussed it with Helen : ‘ I am not at all sure that there is anywhere a loftier , while there could be no sweeter , perfection than that of a household ’ . |
| 26 | Surely there could be no objection to telling him in advance which areas were run by Trusthouse Forte and which by Granada ? |
| 27 | There could be no miracle of the virginal conception without the work of the Third person of the Trinity . |
| 28 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 29 | Being under constant surveillance , there could be no further runs across Heath and Common to Aunt Marjorie 's , even if Clarissa had stayed on . |
| 30 | There could be no question , therefore , of a frontal approach . |