Example sentences of "could [adv] be [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But attribution could only be meaningful if trade union representatives on company boards everywhere and always accepted wholeheartedly the duties of ownership along with the rights , so changing the role of the unions fundamentally and abandoning any pretence to industrial democracy . |
| 2 | For years those of us who have played a cat and mouse game with cagey manager Billy Bingham over team selections could always be sure that Donaghy 's name would be the first one down on the sheet . |
| 3 | But he could also be dismayed if Christians were heard by pagans to be talking nonsense about nature . |
| 4 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 5 | The most likely interpretation of bank could well be different if A and B were on a boat in the middle of a river . ) |
| 6 | It could well be significant that Cnut is not himself said to have had any connection with the document , and it may reveal little of the real business of the Oxford meeting . |
| 7 | Initially , sugar was added after fermentation ( liqueur d'expédition ) purely to improve the flavour of wines which could sometimes be green and tart in a northerly region like Champagne . |
| 8 | The arrest could then be lawful if B had in fact stolen the thing in question or if A reasonably suspected B of having stolen it , provided ( in the last case ) that the thing had in fact been stolen by someone . |
| 9 | The figures in Table 5.1 are from cross-sectional data , obtained in 1980 , and could therefore be misleading as indicators of changes in households over time . |