Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she wanted to run , she forced herself to walk , with what she could only hope was regal grace , past Matthew and out of the confines of that cupboard . |
| 2 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 3 | There could scarcely have been two people more different from each other in character : the one motivated by a keen sense of order , rationality , and discipline ; the other driven by his emotions and whimsical fancy . |
| 4 | The other matter which Chapman could not accept was any charge that his cars had been ‘ dangerous ’ , despite the fact that an inordinately large number of people had been killed or injured in his cars . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 6 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 7 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 8 | It could just have been bad luck . ’ |
| 9 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 10 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 11 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 12 | As to the statutes of limitation on the picture , Llewellyn notes that , ‘ The longest that could ever apply is thirty years . |
| 13 | Considering the possibly apocalyptic and doom-laden task we have on hand , the least we could reasonably expect is high winds , torrential rain , thunder , lightning , tempests , tornadoes and all those other adverse weather conditions that King Lear encountered on his walkabout around the blasted heath . |
| 14 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 15 | But now Gilbert was fumbling at Pearce 's lapels , eyes glittering with what Pearce could now see was naked fear . |
| 16 | Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ? |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry I could n't have been more help . ’ |
| 18 | THERE could n't have been any doubt of ’ innovative thinking after managing director presented this packet of breakfast cereal at the Financial Times Food & Drink Conference in March . |
| 19 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 20 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 21 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 22 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |