Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , if nothing could ever be taken for granted , there would be large deadweight losses arising from bargaining and factionalism .
2 The screw was only allowed to be effective where nothing could possibly be effected by its application .
3 Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , searching for signs of belief that something could still be made of the occasion .
4 One could also be faced with problems , similar to those in relation to shares , regarding equitable and legal ownership of debentures and the priority of competing transferees .
5 They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other .
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