Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] could be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few sportsmen or coaches could be more explicit on this point than Haringey 's sprinter John Skeets : ‘ It 's part of our make-up , physically and mentally . ’ |
| 2 | In times of crisis , as we have already seen when Mary Titford arrived in Frome from London in 1757 , families or individuals could be quite surprisingly mobile . |
| 3 | With a judgement of timescales allowed , success or failure could be easily monitored , now that there are both junior and senior international computer ranking lists . |
| 4 | Now you 're saying erm rather well , that in fact that person or persons could be more independent |
| 5 | Now you 're saying er rather well , that in fact that person or persons could be more independent |
| 6 | Or people could be up within |
| 7 | Suddenly there was somewhere where you could ‘ be ’ in peace , where plots could be hatched , messages got across and , best of all , where romance could be safely experienced . |
| 8 | The issue was whether he was the person he claimed to be , and the Court of Appeal held that this must be tested by his appearance in court where cross-examination could be fully informed by the recollections of several people in England who knew the missing heir before his emigration . |
| 9 | Anne was glad that Sarah could be so philosophical about the war . |
| 10 | Nervousness was exacerbated by another weak Wall Street opening , a further rise in oil prices and fears that exports could be adversely affected by the strong pound . |
| 11 | This means that crime could be severely cutting your profits . |
| 12 | Moreover , it was felt that acts other than penetration could be equally traumatic . |
| 13 | Laverne , I just want you to know that business could be seriously affected if my guests end up in a mess , dammit . |
| 14 | Great care would be taken during the whole operation , and there need be no fears that varieties could be incorrectly named or labels lost . |
| 15 | Now Eurotunnel says that £7bn could be nearer the mark , while the banks and the consortium involved in the construction work believe that far bigger sums will be necessary . |
| 16 | The idea that knowledge could be firmly established and disputes resolved if we began from clear beginnings always remained with Hobbes . |
| 17 | One fact stands out that in spite of " persuasion " by the British government that electors could be well advised to support power sharing , voters continued to support anti-power sharing candidates . |
| 18 | ‘ It claims that the provision of life-saving care to premature infants is too expensive and that resources could be better deployed elsewhere . |
| 19 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 20 | Recommending that hoop-skirts could be usefully converted into play-pens for children , Punch also pondered on whether Regent Street might have to be widened ‘ in order to accommodate the growing dimensions of the ladies ’ dresses ' . |
| 21 | ‘ I never realized that sunsets could be so lovely . ’ |
| 22 | Nora tried her best to get round the wartime restrictions so that Constance could be well dressed . |
| 23 | ‘ … until Dr Greene told her he 'd decided to deliver , then she perked up immediately and insisted on an epidural so that Bill could be there and she could see the baby straight away . ’ |
| 24 | There were four major East Coast developments in the 1980s : the significant increase in HST productivity so that sets could be more extensively deployed to provide service to Inverness , Glasgow Queen Street , Hull and Cleethorpes ; electrification of the route from Hitchin to Leeds with only minor interference to train services ; introduction of a new track-maintenance strategy and transfer of overnight Anglo-Scottish sleeping-car services to the West Coast main line . |
| 25 | He was more concerned with prevention than repression ; and in any case by the time he wrote it had been shown that repression could be safely left in the hands of the Romans . |
| 26 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 27 | Then there 's ITN 's fascinating headquarters in London 's Grays Inn Road — did you ever realise that glass could be that interesting ? |
| 28 | Towards the end of the 1980s there was a growing awareness that children could be sexually abused not only by an individual acting on his or her own , but also by adults acting in concert . |
| 29 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 30 | Sir Keith Joseph has recently gone on record as saying that he wished that examiners could be more objective in their assessment of what children know . |