Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's particularly important in systems like ours , where you can divert your telephone , so even though you 're certain that you dialled the right number , you could end up absolutely anywhere , because the number you dialled could be diverted somewhere completely different , so it 's very important when you answer the telephone to say who you are . |
| 2 | This could be made slightly less astringent by mixing it 50/50 with a flower water or distilled water . |
| 3 | But the Macedonian kings could be regarded as more Greek than their Macedonian subjects . |
| 4 | Example 4 still remains a problem , but it may be that books could be suggested as more likely than boots from semantic co-occurrence information , or from frequency of use from a corpus ( books is five times more likely to occur than boots ) , especially if weighted from a count of occurrence in the script recognised so far . |
| 5 | Only the Guardian amongst the qualities and the Mirror ( with its Scottish stable-mate , the Record ) amongst the tabloids could be considered even moderately left-wing in 1987 . |
| 6 | For example , the strength of industrial production could be judged as more fundamental than retailing and the City 's financial dealing . |