Example sentences of "[that] could be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current Cheltenham second favourite Mighty Mogul is likely to head the market here but , in a race that could be slowly run in the absence of an obvious front-runner , he is worth opposing . |
| 2 | The banking document and estate agent 's document were both designed to be readable by lay people , and hence used language structures that could be immediately understood . |
| 3 | Many of the men currently undergoing treatment are wanting rid of political-style tattoos — ‘ IRA ’ and ‘ UDA ’ inscriptions that could be downright dangerous . |
| 4 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 5 | I do n't want to over-hype it , but it would be equally wrong to underestimate what Tencel might be , which is the beginning of a new industry that could be both material to Courtaulds and change the world fibre industry completely . |
| 6 | It was exactly the issue that could be best settled by a bipartisan government . |
| 7 | They are also on the edge of something that could be even more immediately dangerous . |
| 8 | I suppose it means meeting fewer people and in that way is a loss to you , but if you get on well with your lady that could be even better , and it is good that you have weekends free . |
| 9 | It was plain that the existing accommodation — two classrooms separated by a half-glazed folding partition , a head teacher 's office and WC block — did not provide an arrangement that could be easily adapted to give convenient living space . |
| 10 | In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation . |
| 11 | ‘ As we looked at the range of products available , we saw that FCRS offered us the most flexible route as the basic packaged solution that could be easily maintained . ’ |
| 12 | There was a plentiful supply of cheap labour that could be easily employed in tiny sweatshops . |
| 13 | A lockpick , his own invention , something that could be easily concealed during an escape routine ; it telescoped — a little spring-loaded spike . |
| 14 | In fact , it 's a term that could be aptly used to describe that whole flowery genre of catch-all fiddle-and-flute pop that has sprouted up in this country since Mike Scott first became an executive member of An Bord lascaigh Mhara . |
| 15 | In the dialect-divergent community we found this problematic , and we located only two vowel variables that could be reliably quantified in this way . |
| 16 | ‘ God and Saint Winifred dispose ! ’ said the earl , and mounted without haste , to stand for a moment motionless , before turning the book , with slow , hieratic gestures that could be clearly seen by all , upon its spine between his long , muscular hands , thumbs meeting to part the pages . |
| 17 | I have a job to offer him that could be rather lucrative . ’ |
| 18 | He was thickset with a broad forehead and full beard and very light-coloured , widely set eyes that could be most intimidating . |
| 19 | Zhorik has also developed an interesting new style : huge sheets with paintings that recall Roy Lichenstein 's pictures but executed in a naïve , ethnic style that could be either Russian or New Guinean . |
| 20 | The magazine , while interesting , is perhaps a perk that could be either decreased in frequency ( say twice yearly ) or paid for separately … |
| 21 | She was n't naïve enough to think he was in love with her ; nor did she think she was in love with him — or not very much — but the thought of that strong body and craggy face , of grey eyes that could be either icily remote or filled with humour , made her tremble . |
| 22 | Its name implies similarity with the primary sore of syphilis but it is ill-named , for the only feature in common with syphilis is the presence of genital ulceration and by this criterion there are at least six other conditions that could be equally well so labelled . |
| 23 | This makes sense : war and politics were perceived by lay participants as subject to supernatural interventions that could be magically invoked as well as interpreted — hence the important role of churchmen and their rituals in these areas of public contestation and conflict , for instance in not just the retrospective presentation but the preliminary " staging " of battles as Judgements of God . |
| 24 | This was part of his belief that poetic composition was not an activity that could be consciously controlled , that it had its roots far down in the unconscious . |
| 25 | This was the harvest that could be reasonably be expected in an average year . |
| 26 | The primary , but not exclusive , focus is on Scottish IT firms which make up a localised sample that could be comprehensively surveyed . |
| 27 | They found a number of flashes but none that could be definitely ascribed to gamma ray bursts from primordial black holes . |
| 28 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't suppose there 's many girls that could be that much worse than , say , Hilary Frome , ’ put in Penny , out of loyalty to her sex . |
| 30 | Here German numerical superiority of 2:1 made a hole in the line that could be only inadequately plugged . |