Example sentences of "could be [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation could be particularly acute for basic rate taxpayers who invest in PEPs . |
| 2 | Firstly , intestinal permeability could be primarily abnormal in treated coeliac disease subjects . |
| 3 | Knowledge of how bacteria move DNA around could be extremely useful for developing strains that destroy pollutants , for example . |
| 4 | It has been a less serious factor in the French-speaking countries where European traders and shopkeepers continue to operate small businesses , although these could be periodically subject to local political pressures including arbitrary taxation . |
| 5 | Social institutions — property arrangements , for example — could be very different in agrarian south-east and the industrialized north-west of Europe ; nonetheless , common economic tendencies were already producing common ways of conceiving society . |
| 6 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 7 | The advice could be very welcome for young people . |
| 8 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 9 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 10 | Ye No I yes I I f would have thought it could be quite obstructive in certain circumstances . |
| 11 | The third group contains elements that are peripheral to this schema but could be more central to other schemas , such as our current conceptualisation of the solar system . |
| 12 | ‘ Cordon pricing could be more attractive in changing drivers ’ behaviour ’ . |
| 13 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |