Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could only be the Shangri-La Singapore . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's why I could never be a Tory . ’ |
| 3 | Of course McDunn points out that I could still be the murderer ; this could all be a story I 've made up . |
| 4 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |
| 5 | If anyone was going to be chosen to usher in the end of the world , she could well be the girl to do it . |
| 6 | He thought she could always be an actress in a pinch , you see . |
| 7 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 8 | But she could sometimes be the diva . |
| 9 | I mean we could well be the exercise that we embark on , could actually eliminate sectors around York . |
| 10 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 11 | If habituation occurs by reduction of the postsynaptic response at a single synapse , it could logically be a consequence of either pre- or postsynaptic processes , or of course a combination of both . |
| 12 | It could rather be the context itself that is determining the nature of the exchanges . |
| 13 | It could even be a problem if the three players are not coming . |
| 14 | It could even be a problem if the three players are not coming . |
| 15 | It could even be a restraint on a democratic Soviet Union , as President Havel of Czechoslovakia suggested at NATO last week . |
| 16 | Conceivably , it could even be the spark to provide the super-charged finish to the season Leeds need to beat Manchester United to the title . |
| 17 | While this could be a check upon the High Authority , it could also be a check upon individualistic action by national governments . |
| 18 | It could also be a revision session . |
| 19 | It could also be an aftermarket product for Interactive 's 3.2 . |
| 20 | It could also be the year in which either shadow home secretary Tony Blair or shadow trade and industry secretary Robin Cook emerge as Labour 's leader-in-waiting . |
| 21 | But it could also be the case that all three forms ( or perhaps two of them ) were current in the underlying dialect of the scribe ( or of the author ) , or — more properly — of the speech community to which he belonged . |
| 22 | The removal of the Barre regime may be the end of a tyranny ; it could also be the begining of a tribal war the horrors of which we have so far only glimpsed . |
| 23 | ‘ It could just be a coincidence . |
| 24 | With the bad weather set to continue , they 're worried motorists simply wo n't learn their lesson , and it could just be a matter of time before motorway madness claims more lives . |
| 25 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 26 | An interface , in computer jargon , is simply a means of connecting the computer to the world outside its box — in this instance we are concerned with connecting printers but it could equally be a cassette recorder , joystick or another computer that we wished to connect . |
| 27 | It could equally be a Muscatel from Valencia or a Romanian sweetie . |
| 28 | For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith , it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter — a kind of Pyrrhic defeat . |
| 29 | A congressman 's support for the president on a particular issue may not represent a straightforward quid pro quo ; it could well be a mark of his gratitude for favours bestowed upon him in the past . |
| 30 | He predicted it could well be a smash-hit . |