Example sentences of "[noun sg] could be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A test ban would destabilise the nuclear balance because neither side could be sure what effect it was having on the other . |
| 2 | When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts . |
| 3 | Where there were more Indians than positions as Chiefs , when , for example , many constables had passed the Sergeant 's exam , personal animosity could be severe . |
| 4 | In five of the six companies it was found that the planning department could be involved in special projects on an ad hoc basis . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that the capital cost of a 1,000 MW installation on the UK coast could be comparable with the cost of a conventional power station of the same capacity but this does not take into account the amount of R & D necessary both to develop a 2MW , 100-metre diameter aerogenerator and to design the kind of structures and transmission systems to withstand the rigours of the ocean . |
| 6 | EVEN the sports car of the future could be diesel-engined , according to Chris Smith , chairman of Westfield Sports Cars , producers of some of the raunchiest two-seaters on the market . |
| 7 | The vicar , the Rev. Leslie Gready , wants his flock to give five per cent of their income : otherwise , he believes , the future could be bleak . |
| 8 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 9 | Good religion could be good politics , good politics could require good religion , and there can be no question that Cnut threw himself into certain aspects of his role with zest . |
| 10 | ‘ I find it hard to believe Master Lorimer could be responsible for your condition , ’ droned the butler . |
| 11 | Much of the polymorphism could be transient and , without an even more detailed history of the field , uninterpretable . |
| 12 | Interest in Channel4 's coverage of the game and booming sales of NFL products suggest that American football could be ripe for development in Scotland . |
| 13 | Twenty-eight weekly newspapers based in English towns in 1758 seems a sparse enough provision , but their circulation could be extensive . |
| 14 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 15 | If you encounter a specific behavioural problem later , it may also be worth discussing this with your vet in case a medical condition could be responsible , and treatment can be provided . |
| 16 | If pleasure could be everlasting and if one could always stay young then his retreat would be a beautiful and convincing one but as this world is governed by realities and not the imagination of the individual , momentary escapism is all that Marlowe 's poem can offer . |
| 17 | This monster could be free , to possibly kill again , in less than seven years . |
| 18 | Although patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency malabsorb 10%-30% of the ingested complex carbohydrate , the main determinant of stool wet weight could be faecal fat . |
| 19 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 20 | One was that the arts INSET programme could be deficient as the views of arts staff would not be represented when INSET decisions were being made . |
| 21 | A ten-minute programme could be suitable for advanced learners who could follow it without difficulty . |
| 22 | We suspect , however , that the reason for the low positivity in their experiment could be due to differences in sensitivity , and this study failed to include positive control tissue infected with tuberculosis to detect this . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , it was also pointed out that screening could be effective in uncovering treatable conditions which sufferers were otherwise likely to put up with as simply the inevitable consequence of old age . |
| 24 | An alternative could be high coupon gilts as the tax can be reclaimed . |
| 25 | An alternative could be high coupon gilts as the tax can be reclaimed . |
| 26 | An alternative could be high coupon gilts as the tax can be reclaimed . |
| 27 | There have been growing fears that aluminium could be responsible for causing the disease , with leading experts calling for reductions in the metal in drinking water . |
| 28 | Moreover , strike action could be counterproductive . |
| 29 | He warned that no economic aid could be forthcoming until a long-term constitutional solution had been found . |
| 30 | There are many differences between these two bodies , but a detailed comparative study could be useful not only for the two areas involved but also for the southern European countries about to join the EEC . |