Example sentences of "that [pron] could be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agony was unimaginable ; she had never thought that there could be such pain in the world . |
| 2 | The idea that there could be such authority without effective power hardly occurred to anyone . |
| 3 | And anyway , he did n't suppose for a moment that there could be another girl in the world as lovely as Linnet . |
| 4 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 5 | It was quite difficult to believe that there could be any animation in them . |
| 6 | But definitely post-Christian because I do not believe that there could be this uniqueness : that God could be related in a particular way to a particular age or to one particular person Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | Now I am not myself a Christian because I do not believe that there could be this particularity . |
| 8 | It is excellent news that there could be this move towards a captive-bred substitute . |
| 9 | As I 'm sure you 'll understand , when I first came to see this awful situation I was consumed with a feeling of frustration — knowing , as I did then , that it could be some time before we 'd be in a position to intervene . |
| 10 | Following his interview , I wrote an urgent letter about his circumstances to the local housing department , although I recognised that it could be some time before he received any offers of accommodation . |