Example sentences of "[conj] could [adv] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a dream that could soon be a reality . |
| 2 | Probably this is due , more than anything else , to the sheer quantity of plant material and could thus be a measure of area . |
| 3 | While the United States , by virtue of its major input into Europe after 1941 , may have been a European power , it was not and could not be a European state . |
| 4 | As regards tragedy , spiritually the city 's focal point , Euripides was not and could not be a spiritual guide as Aeschylus had once been , although the need was , no doubt , greater than in Aeschylus ' time . |
| 5 | Providing an assurance to parents that children are not only well fed but properly supervised during the mid-day break adds to the appeal of a school and could well be the deciding factor which finally influences parental choice in sending their child to your school rather than to your neighbour 's . |
| 6 | Protectionism it seemed , was not necessarily a hindrance and could even be a help in the transformation of an economy . |
| 7 | The C-terminal cytosolic portion of the human histamine H 2 receptor exhibits several sites at which serines are flanked by basic residues and could therefore be a substrate for protein kinase C. It has also bee suggested that protein kinase C uncouples a receptor for glucagon-29 from Gs by phosphorylating the receptor . |
| 8 | We have suggested that properly coordinated motility might be of crucial importance in promoting acid clearance , and could therefore be an unrecognised factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulceration . |
| 9 | The skills involved in communicating information well are , I think , often underestimated , and could usefully be the subject for extensive practical workshops as part of a responsible continuing education programme . |
| 10 | All the ingenious forms of longer-term borrowing undertaken by the United States from overseas monetary authorities merely changed the form of these liabilities , and could only be a stop-gap . |
| 11 | The major amendments are : to s 1 , CA 1985 to allow a private limited company to be formed or to operate with only one member ; to s 24 , CA 1985 so that it no longer applies to private limited companies ( so , if a company becomes a single member company as a result , say , of the transfer of the shares of one of two members to the other , the sole member will not lose the benefit of limited liability as could formerly be the case ) ; to s 122(1) ( e ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 so that it no longer applies to private limited companies . |
| 12 | And devolution might be less effective than it should be if , as could well be the case in Scotland for example , the support for one particular party was such that there was very little likelihood of a change of control at elections . |