Example sentences of "he could [adv] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could also be a sage , TV-style , and an acclaimed public figure . |
| 2 | ‘ He could well be a friend of the girl 's father . ’ |
| 3 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 4 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 5 | He could never be an exception ; he is dependent on the health of his society , needing the sandy smiles of Rolf and Rudolph , of Rudiger , of Reinhard . |
| 6 | At work , he could only be a trade unionist . |
| 7 | One of my mates is convinced he could still be a rock and roll star . |
| 8 | He was strong certainly and brave but armed only with a staff he could hardly be a match for five armed men . |