Example sentences of "[adv] could be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " She counted for a great deal in the palace " in the sense that she had privileged access to Louis and thus could be a helpful patron . |
| 2 | Smoking is known to be an important risk factor for development of squamous carcinomas of the oesophagus in the Western world and thus could be a likely candidate for adenocarcinomatous change . |
| 3 | Even if you have the cash , paying it over could be a severe strain on your resources . |
| 4 | They just could be the first band in history to sell genuine English music to the Americans . |
| 5 | There hardly could be a harder act to follow than Gary Armstrong , universally rated the outstanding scrum-half in the world game , but Andrew Nicol of Dundee High School FP made an impressive stab at it when thrown to the English wolves at Murrayfield on January 18 . |
| 6 | Local ( i.e. non-resident ) demand for leisure facilities is difficult to quantify but clearly could be an important source of revenue . |
| 7 | ahh — and besides i will be going to London this autumn too watch Tottenham — Leeds ( and on Sunday Newcastle-Scousers which also could be a nice game ) |
| 8 | ‘ Hell ’ , indeed , might be some acoustically Stones-ian descent into a nightclub in Hades but it also could be the only relationship song where a harshly dissected third party pollutes Simon 's playpool . |
| 9 | As McHale said , they must try to climb back up the table but an end-of-season clear out could be a good idea . |
| 10 | West Country Living : Where gas really could be the main problem Lynne Edmunds suggests that all buyers should have their houses checked for radon |
| 11 | An unemployed member now could be a full member in the near future , possibly in firms where we have previously had no members . |
| 12 | [ T ] here could be no true liberty if a man was confined and oppressed by poverty , by excessive hours of labour , by insecurity of livelihood … |
| 13 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 14 | Artistic creativity , in Yakovlev 's view , served the needs of society for self-understanding and self-knowledge ; without it there could be no moral progress or human development . |
| 15 | The foregoing would , of course , mean that property rights were not for the dispensation of some imagined ‘ god ’ of early superstitious religion , but existed by virtue of the fact that human beings have , in the course of time , generally agreed that such a right was ‘ good ’ , for the reason that without it there could be no peaceful existence and no contentment . |
| 16 | If it is a global feature then it too could be the direct result of inhomogeneous accretion , or of the final stages of compaction of accreted bodies under an overburden that grows with depth . |