Example sentences of "could be a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's an admirable scheme , and it 's obviously very cost effective , and , and equal , and I , I think we should be very grateful that there are in fact a few caring people out there , and they 're there to take this what could be a particularly onerous job on . |
| 2 | As nothing similar to this system exists in any European language this could be a particularly difficult thing to learn . |
| 3 | Gauguin , in his evocations of life in Tahiti , was the first to show that there could be a completely different culture — more sensual , less strait-laced — more fitting to the beach . |
| 4 | Could be a pretty influential parent . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have thought it could be a pretty lonely existence . ’ |
| 6 | The strange factor is that what may evoke this process could be a rather wonderful event , perhaps linked to a relationship or career matter . |
| 7 | But , as Wayne 's World gears up for international release to what could be a largely uncomprehending audience , you have to ask if the film is n't too insular . |
| 8 | As for the tradesmen , some saw an opening into what could be a vastly lucrative enterprise . |
| 9 | Health promotion strategies aimed at elderly people could be a highly cost-effective option for the NHS as Fries 's research trial with 6,000 retirees in California demonstrates ( reported in Maynard 1990 ) . |
| 10 | Then it 's off to the library , a detailed study of perhaps just one book and your heroine could be a sufficiently convincing expert . |
| 11 | Thus an elected second chamber could be a much stronger barrier to the achievement of socialist ideals than the present House of Lords . |
| 12 | It was impressed with the usefulness and flexibility of the scheme , but needed to consider whether there could be a more effective use of resources . |
| 13 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 14 | Lack of tenacity could be a more accurate diagnosis . |
| 15 | But the England committee fear Gooch 's domestic upheaval could be a more damaging distraction in India to his pursuit of his 100th Test cap and 100th first-class century . |
| 16 | There could be a totally innocent reason why someone arrived with no documents . |
| 17 | It could be a damn good holiday . |
| 18 | ‘ But Angola could be a very rich country , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Departments have agreed to notify the local planning authority of development proposals which are likely to be of special concern to the authority or to the public ; for example where there could be a very substantial effect on the character of a conservation area , or where there could be a significant planning impact , visually or otherwise , beyond the department 's own site . |
| 20 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 21 | I think peop it 's clear that that could be a very useful part of er of there being care in people 's homes . |
| 22 | Oats are traditionally grown in Scotland and Wales ; rye is the staple grain of the cold North European plain and the higher alpine holdings , and could be a very useful bread or animal-feeding grain on a smallholding . |
| 23 | In such a complex area as taxation , this could be a very useful tool for all levels of staff . |
| 24 | For instance , you may think that running a household and looking after your children is all in a day 's work ; however , the planning skills needed to do this could be a very useful quality to have in some jobs . |
| 25 | The barons of Normandy and Poitou were not innately unfavourable towards a Plantagenet lord and , as their successors were to discover after 1337 , a choice of allegiance could be a very useful weapon in the course of disputes with the Capetian monarchy . |
| 26 | The debates could be a very effective form of control where broad political issues were at stake ; but much Community legislation is highly technical and not readily comprehensible without considerable understanding of the Community background and of the special sectors which would be affected . |
| 27 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 28 | Aware that removing nitrate from water supplies could be a very expensive business , that curbs on the use of nitrogen would probably enrage the agricultural lobby , and with privatisation on the horizon , the issue became progressively more important for the DoE . |
| 29 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 30 | It 'll be a very , could be a very vague letter just say you remember we wrote to you some time ago that your plan was in arrears , we 've never had this money and we 're now notifying you that we 're gon na collect the arrears on your ne c payment . |