Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] could [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brave as could be in the cocked-up invasion of Crete and in the Yugoslavian mountains with Tito , he was still just the sort of awkward squaddie no army likes . |
| 2 | A dull cool summer it had been , as different as could be from the year before . |
| 3 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 4 | The Harry Williams-bred September 1990 brindle pup , out of the same Slippy Blue-Soda Pop 11 litter as the eye-catching Pond Tornado and Pond Pavarotti , is rapidly improving and could be in line for Sunderland 's Greyhound of the Month award . |
| 5 | The best that could be for the the Simpson woman is that at least when they had married , she stuck to him right to his death . |
| 6 | I can not divulge the ideas being discussed as they are wide ranging and could be of value to our rivals but hopefully more will be revealed in the next issue of Network . |
| 7 | The Georgian case was as close as could be to straight annexation , without the pretext of disorder ( although the Turkish army remained an important threat ) . |
| 8 | About as normal as could be with me . |