Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] could [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Stuart Mill had claimed ( Rogers 1964 : 238 ) that pleasure could be of a carnal nature or of a ‘ higher ’ kind . |
| 2 | The decision in Kirkham leaves open the possibility that a suicide in their right mind could be ex turpi causa . |
| 3 | MORE than £100 million of European aid could be on its way to the Highlands and Islands following a European Commission recommendation yesterday that the region should get top priority in EC regional spending plans . |
| 4 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 5 | From this FitzGerald could be in little doubt as to the likely course the bishops would take once a referendum campaign got under way . |
| 6 | Dropping hints that an initial public offering could be on the cards , the company pointed to figures showing that the majority of software start-ups make for an IPO at between $10m and $20m of venture funding : Neuron Data is capitalised at $16m . |
| 7 | By the time a Newent ambulanceman gets up , gets down to the garage , unlocks , etc , another ambulance could be on the scene . |
| 8 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you would need real financial help . |
| 9 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you need real financial help . |
| 10 | One aspect of this reflection could be on the production of liturgy , and its relationship to social justice . |
| 11 | This test could be of clinical value in deciding which patients require urgent referral for further management and treatment in hospitals without specialist nephrological care . |
| 12 | Catching her breath , Ronni added , ‘ All this panic could be for nothing . ’ |
| 13 | Some appointments could be on a representative basis where there are sectional interests , but in other cases the wider public interest would need to be safeguarded . |
| 14 | And if McIvor hits his true form up front , another upset could be on the cards . |
| 15 | Mr Justice Latham , adjourning the trial last Wednesday until yesterday , told the jury the fresh evidence could be of great significance . |
| 16 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 17 | Another use could be in agriculture . |
| 18 | A further trend could be for increasing numbers of small transactions with individual investors becoming involved , providing both management expertise and money , as some of those who benefited from the earlier buyout boom recycle their profits . |
| 19 | In Belgrade , the rump state of Yugoslavia denied US charges that a cargo of Serbian arms could be on its way to Somalia on a Greek-registered ship . |
| 20 | The old man could be on the way out , and anyone on the way out is inevitably a centre for drama . |
| 21 | She still found it hard to believe that any British ship could be in danger so near to home ; even when Jock had explained that unless a submarine was in water deep enough in which to dive , an escort was essential . |
| 22 | It will be valuable if our definitive document could be in place by the time FRS 3 comes into force on 22 June 1993 . |
| 23 | This measurement could be of clinical importance in assessment of a patient referred with impaired renal function , by helping to determine whether the deterioration in renal function was acute ( ARF ) , acute on chronic ( AonCRF ) , or part of stable-chronic renal failure ( CRF ) . |
| 24 | It is unthinkable that any arguable account of dependent conditionals could be without a notion of lawlike connection , and hence of law or lawlike statement . |
| 25 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 26 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 27 | But Silverstone 's position as one of the world 's premier circuits could be on the last lap … |
| 28 | We had to believe the photographs which appeared in the newspapers , but I think we all asked ourselves how such things could be in a so-called civilised world . |
| 29 | Second call could be to those CHP companies prepared to offer a free initial energy analysis . |
| 30 | New tests have shown that homes throughout an entire county could be at risk from the radioactive gas Radon . |