Example sentences of "that [pron] could be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelman did not believe that everyone could be a torturer . |
| 2 | I worked my guts out getting my Doctorate , so that I could be a member of Project Eden and be with you . |
| 3 | Now that I could be a gentleman , as I had always wished , I was not sure if I wanted to leave my home , which was full of happy memories . |
| 4 | The Queen was adamant that the Princess should act as an intermediary between the architect , those involved with the house and herself , so that she could be a party to all their ideas . |
| 5 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 6 | Since then it had been discovered that one could be a parachutist and live . |
| 7 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |
| 8 | The alternative implication Gershuny draws is that there could be a reduction in the average number of hours employed in the formal sector , with us all making more use of the our increased leisure by using our Black and Deckers , Moulinexs , and Sinclair products . |
| 9 | And we are also told that there could be a case where the peasantry had no such effect . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that in my submission to the York greenbelt local plan enquiry , I suggested that there could be a case for making an inset within the greenbelt to accommodate a new settlement . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding a 1956 offer — later withdrawn — to return the two smaller islands ( Shikotan and Habomai ) , and a 1973 Soviet suggestion that there could be a discussion of the sovereignty of the larger two , the issue served to freeze Soviet-Japanese relations and prevented joint economic ventures or Japanese aid . |
| 12 | The paper shows that there could be a return of these positions without prejudicing the integrity of an Edinburgh and Lothian-wide council . |
| 13 | Another possibility is that there could be a relationship between this inflammation and infection with Helicobacter pylori , although we are unable to confirm this from our study , since the organism was not specifically looked for in every case . |
| 14 | His remarks were seen as a sign that the community accepts that there could be a 20- or even 22-member organisation by the end of the 1990s . |
| 15 | The report warns that there could be a consumer backlash if products are not labelled . |
| 16 | Several other economists agree that there could be a bounce in prices next year . |
| 17 | In the first example of his tenacity , he pointed out that there could be no guarantee that the government 's privatization plans would go ahead in their then current form and they might not happen at all . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Or rather that is not , in the first instance , what I asked myself , because I was driven to the view — incorrectly — that there could be no link between the two crimes . |
| 20 | US White House chief of staff John Sununu reiterated on Jan. 13 the US insistence that there could be no linkage with the Palestinian issue but that " certainly there are opportunities after the Gulf crisis is resolved when such a conference takes place " . |
| 21 | Before that , the Aristotelian paradigm had dictated that there could be no change in the super-lunar region and , accordingly , no change was observed . |
| 22 | I had to repeat it a number of times so that there could be no misunderstanding . |
| 23 | All we wanted was proof that John was alive and to know why he was being held , but government policy was so rigid that there could be no contact , no discussions . |
| 24 | Another extraordinary feature of the situation was that ND 's executive officer , John Torkington , put over a PA announcement to the effect that there could be no play while any rain continued unless both captains agreed . |
| 25 | Adenauer agreed with me that there could be no question of submerging the identity of our two nations in a stateless institution . ’ |
| 26 | Shultz and Weinberger opposed Poindexter 's plan , pointing out that it undermined America 's much-stated policy , usually made in conjunction with Mrs Thatcher , that no deals must be made with terrorists and that there could be no question of bargaining to get hostages released since this would inevitably lead to more abductions . |
| 27 | She wished her parents lived in the Aran Islands and that there could be no question of her having to go home every night . |
| 28 | Making it clear that there could be no question of a ceasefire , Foreign Minister Moumin Bahdon Farah said on Jan. 5 that the FRUD was a foreign invading force , and that it was the government 's duty to continue to defend the unity and sovereignty of the country . |
| 29 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 30 | He rang me last night , very kindly , principally I think to assure me that there could be no doubt . |