Example sentences of "that [pron] could be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 After a little nudge from me she remembered Lilian Parsons , seemed to think that I could be her surviving twin .
2 ‘ She is so like you that she could be your twin ! ’ ’
3 But as far as freebies are concerned , as you know our cage driller machine , that 's now into it 's third year of development , I have an assurance from the college that we could be we could use it on the day .
4 In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy .
5 It was the association of hot springs and helium that had made him think that there could be something to Chatterjee 's idea after all , and maybe to the claims by Fleischmann and Pons .
6 You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt .
7 might be that there could be something as simple as that that 's
8 Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better .
9 might be that there could be something as simple as that that 's
10 It 's terribly difficult trying to get from them any acknowledgements that there could be something wrong about making a complimentary remark to a young woman .
11 Surely it is a ludicrous notion to suppose that two scientists on their own in a remote basement lab could claim to solve the world 's energy problems so that the scientific community would take up this claim , that world leaders would ask for regular briefings and that there could be nothing in it at the end .
12 Of course , I realised that it was an example of pure coincidence and that there could be nothing more to it .
13 ‘ Naturally it would n't occur to you that there could be anything innocent about our weekend in Hualien . ’
14 Above all , Britain had failed to convince the new French president that it could be nothing but a rival to France for European leadership .
15 Mrs Charlton , who does work for British and US universities , added : ‘ There are many , many indications that it could be somebody who is very good at mimicry and improvisation . ’
16 ‘ You do n't feel that it could be someone from inside the Lodge , do you ? ’
17 At first , we could only hear the wagons and we thought that it could be someone hand-shunting , but at this time of night ?
18 But I have the feeling that it could be my next Major because it will be on a course I can play . ’
19 It looked like a woman , but he never imagined that it could be his wife until she came close and he saw it was Tess .
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