Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A citizens charter could only ever be a creature of a Conservative Government , for one cardinal and overriding reason — the Labour party is beholden , in terms of funding , finance and philosophy , to the producers , rather than the consumers , of services . |
| 2 | There could not even be a question of dual nationality . |
| 3 | This could not even be a matter of learning something to her advantage . |
| 4 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
| 5 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 6 | Except that now , she realised , this could not possibly be a dream . |
| 7 | That you really believe that you could not possibly be a victim of this terrible conspiracy . |
| 8 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 9 | Stripped of all the trimmings , the plot depends finally on one " trick " , causing the reader to assume that an ignorant servant could not possibly be the writer of the elaborate legal phraseology of the threatening notes , whereas in fact the fellow has copied the phrases from the legal paraphernalia all about the house . |
| 10 | She paid her ten pence at the glass cage of the entrance booth , to a young man who could not possibly be the custodian , Great-Uncle Alan 's contemporary , but was clearly something rather more scholarly than a mere gate-keeper . |
| 11 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 12 | No servant need attend him , and though there might well be music made before the evening ended , a girl singer could not fittingly be a part of the entertainment in the abbot 's lodging . |
| 13 | The second group contains elements that could overlap with other familiar schemas ; for example , " Mars ' is a lexical realisation of a real object in our world knowledge , " human colony " is close to past imperialist notions on Earth , and " Envoy " could also plausibly be the name of an Earth-bound ship . |
| 14 | It could also well be the case that to allege that sponsorship and consultancy are permitted because they offer a lucrative source of additional income would be a contempt . |
| 15 | All he claims to have demonstrated is the necessity for some absolute sovereign power or other ; according to his theory , this could as easily be a democracy or an aristocracy as a monarchy . |
| 16 | The entrance to one at the east end of Loch Gorm , which can be seen when the water level is low , is rather puzzling and could as easily be the remains of a wall as a path to the island , particularly as when seen in those conditions there appear to be the walls of a square building on the south side about halfway to the island , and if the water level has been raised to improve the fishing it may not be a true crannog . |
| 17 | No , this could n't really be the case , and he shuddered , in spasms , uncontrollably , and was on the verge of dismissing these thoughts from his mind . |
| 18 | I could n't possibly be a governess all my life ! ’ |
| 19 | Close up he could see how she could n't possibly be a rival , whatever they did with wigs and make-up , but that voice was alarming ; or was it ? |
| 20 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 21 | I could n't ever be a Toinette . |
| 22 | It might be obvious that an object had a religious purpose , but often even this is debatable : a small , crudely carved wooden figure might be the cult statue of a god , but it could equally well be a child 's toy . |
| 23 | The magic box could equally well be a key , a trinket , a crystal — or even a saucepan . |
| 24 | But it could equally well be a consequence of a difference in difficulty between the two pre-training tasks . |
| 25 | It could equally well be the product of several reconstructed remnants ( Smith 1975 , 280 ) . |
| 26 | But Gandhi had plenty of enemies who would like to boast of his murder : a group like the United Liberation Front of Assam , separatist terrorists in the north-west of the country , could equally well be the culprit . |
| 27 | There could no longer be a relationship based on Moscow leading , and the Romanians following orders from abroad . |
| 28 | But after the permission of the seventies , when sex was banalized by becoming available , it could no longer be the instigator of desperation ( it 's that state of mind that is indispensable to rock , not physical fin ) . |
| 29 | Their their mother 's front lawn could very well been a wilderness . |
| 30 | This could very well be an underestimate since the government 's spending plans are based on an estimated growth in the economy of only 1.25 per cent in 1990/91 . |