Example sentences of "could be of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging from its appearance , he doubted that whoever lived there could be of a benign character . |
| 2 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 3 | John Stuart Mill had claimed ( Rogers 1964 : 238 ) that pleasure could be of a carnal nature or of a ‘ higher ’ kind . |
| 4 | The precise nature of neutrophil chemoattractants in these disorders is unknown and they could be of a diverse nature including microbial , chemical ( including prostanoids ) or indeed in ulcerative colitis the damaged colonocytes themselves . |
| 5 | By the time Charles landed , at Roscoff in Brittany , on 29 September 1746 , his brother Henry had returned to Paris and the French had realised that the Stuarts could be of no further use to them . |
| 6 | The racks could be of the usual ‘ Sheffield ’ type . |
| 7 | High Wycombe and Eccles could be earlier than the latter , as they are datable to before c. 175 A.D. , whereas it could be of the third century . |
| 8 | Consequently , it is not surprising to find that none of these mosaics is assignable , confidently , to a period before 330 ( or that all but no. 16 could be of the third quarter of the fourth century ) . |