Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could only be upset by pig-headedness in the Gulf or dumb-mindedness in Washington . |
| 2 | Ascaris Host : Pig Site : Small intestine Species : Ascaris suum Distribution : Worldwide A. suum is by far the largest nematode of the pig ; the females are up to 40.0 cm long , and could only be confused with Macrocanthorhyncus where this occurs . |
| 3 | Frederick did not care to see that these ambitions could only be satisfied at Poland 's expense and that they threatened Poland 's existence . |
| 4 | Come to that , he thought grimly , it could hardly be healthy for Hilary Robarts . |
| 5 | They 've been withdrawn from sale , but its feared other mowers with similar cabling could still be available in shops around Britain . |
| 6 | He would enjoy taking charge of the situation , compelling Underwood to marry Clare , showing her that he could still be charitable in spite of the past . |
| 7 | If the focus was clear , however , the psychological process of depraving and corrupting could still be open to misconception . |
| 8 | The Department of Justice also published the names of 787 people granted indemnity for leaving the country without authority , although it was not clear how many of them could still be liable for prosecution for other offences . |
| 9 | Mimicking a hawk could also be useful in Africa , the European cuckoo 's wintering ground , where birds of prey are numerous . |
| 10 | The distance derived from parallax , together with the dispersion measure , could also be used to measure the local interstellar electron density and so enhance our knowledge of the pulsar distance scale based on dispersion measure and the space density of pulsars . |
| 11 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 12 | If footswitching could be sorted out for these then the covers and pub band scene could well be awash with Marshall S80s . |
| 13 | The adjustment system is not particularly good , something of a nut-and-bolt operation , and looks as though it could well be vulnerable to failure as the bolt wears through the covering fabric . |
| 14 | The speechwriter also has applications as a tool for disabled users who are unable to work a keyboard and , provided it can one day be shrunk to laptop size , could well be useful for sales people wanting to record data while on their travels . |
| 15 | With consumption forecast to rise by 2% in 1989 — and with demand for OPEC oil expected to be at least 1m b/d less than the cartels supply during the second quarter — the world could again be awash in oil in a matter of months . |
| 16 | He could never be happy with morning prayer and not the sacrament as the chief morning service . |
| 17 | But , of course , others insist that it could never be humane in practice because the essence of the cruelty is not only in causing a painful and prolonged death but , rather , in the harrowing chase of the animal , and moreover , of an animal which has not evolved with the typical biological characteristics of a prey species . |