Example sentences of "be [that] [pron] could [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be that they could only be reached through their elders . |
| 2 | The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | The novelty of this discontent was that it could now be mobilised by the political left . |