Example sentences of "[coord] could [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they really placed as milestones or could we be on the track of the elusive mark stones of great antiquity ? |
| 2 | ‘ Or could they be , in any way , related ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Or could they be , in any way , related ? ’ |
| 4 | Were such variations arbitrary , or could they be explained in any logically consistent fashion ? |
| 5 | Or could they be slender spires ? |
| 6 | Or could it be that , by the merest possible chance , Steffi is in fact … |
| 7 | Or could it be that you are deft and capable in practical ways ( needed by a care assistant in social service , or as a nursing aide ) ? |
| 8 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 9 | Or could it be that the front-runner in the fusion race does not look very promising as the basis of a reactor ? |
| 10 | Or could it be the waitresses at the Groucho Club do enough of that already ? |
| 11 | Are mama and my sisters truly in sanctuary — or could it be that some grave misfortune has overtaken them also ? |
| 12 | Two dances later ( had word got round ? ) another partner , it was the philosophy brother — or could it be the soldier brother ? — kissed her . |
| 13 | Or could it be that the boy had taken his spying into the Essoldo Cinema ? |
| 14 | Or could it be a boy 's ? |
| 15 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 16 | Or could it be that you are too frightened to own up to your own emotional weaknesses ? ’ |
| 17 | Or could it be ? is with him at the end of the day only evidence against is weak identification evidence then the case would have been thrown out . |
| 18 | Or could it be that one was from March 24–26 and the other from April 6–9 when politicians of all parties confidently expect to have other things on their minds ? |
| 19 | Or could it be Colebrooke , who had discovered Sir Ralph 's murky past and was promoting his own ambitions under the guise of revenge for past misdeeds ? |
| 20 | Is it correct — or could you be the victim of a computer hiccup ? |
| 21 | Nor could they be formulated by the amateur civil servant . |
| 22 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 23 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
| 24 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 25 | Nor could it be argued that private property ensured an efficient allocation of resources since the market no longer resembled the model of perfect competition . |
| 26 | Just how is not explained , nor could it be : one single vote , and twenty-one Socialist candidates in every constituency , each labelled as a supporter of one particular reform ? |
| 27 | It could not be suggested that these justices in the instant case did not take time to consider the matter and it is not suggested , nor could it be , that they did not take a great deal of care in carrying out their duties . |
| 28 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 29 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 30 | He was not black , nor could he be mistaken for white . |