Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I left here , telling myself I could n't be lady Anne 's companion 'cos I could n't leave mama on her own . |
| 2 | The cycle chain came off twice on the three miles back to the van , but I could n't be cross . |
| 3 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 4 | My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! " |
| 5 | ‘ I could hardly be Fairy Godmother , ’ joked Gayle . |
| 6 | But afterwards he felt depressed , and a bit ill , and there was a nagging pain in his chest which could either be indigestion or the start of a heart attack . |
| 7 | Then she was in another bedroom which could only be Luke 's , and on the chest by the window lay the passport . |
| 8 | Every one of her senses sharpened to its utmost Gina entered a world as unreal and beautiful as Tivoli itself , mindlessly letting conscious thought give way to pure sensation , as his voice caressed her ears with words which could only be endearments , husky and broken . |
| 9 | When she could just be Lily Greene , on holiday in Paris . |
| 10 | If she could n't be Peter she was quite prepared , once she 'd mastered the technicalities , to hide behind a reflection . |
| 11 | On the statement emphasising that she could still be Queen , he said : ‘ The situation is very volatile . |
| 12 | I do n't see how she could ever be Queen . |
| 13 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 14 | The political élite regarded the situation after December 1848 as one which would be finite , destined to end in 1852 with the election of a new President , who could not be Louis-Napoleon since the Constitution precluded a second term . |
| 15 | I was on my way towards the main door of the clubhouse when I saw a cluster of men who could only be journalists . |
| 16 | How had it happened , this tragedy of falling in love with a man who could never be part of her destiny ? |
| 17 | It does take time to become familiar with all the features of the ORIGINAL shaping section but , with patience and practice , you could soon be knee deep in patterns for a whole variety of made to measure designer garments ! |
| 18 | Er , I just think yo er , you know , you could n't be bit for that . |
| 19 | So you could n't be bit for that . |
| 20 | You could n't be Bambi all the time , not on the borders of the subconscious . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 22 | The weight of a guitar is another thing ; we could print the weight of one Les Paul Standard , but the next one could easily be 10% heavier , or lighter , so we 'd have misled our readers by giving a poundage . |
| 23 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 24 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 25 | The fee was a million dollars : there could also be percentages . |
| 26 | There could also be tax help for home buyers and businesses . |
| 27 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 28 | There could also be possibilities for fruitful links between primary schools in different areas of the country . |
| 29 | There could also be parts of the universe containing more anti-matter than matter . |
| 30 | The Thames barrier was proved to work and there could well be tax cuts in the Spring , said Howe . |