Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 2 | The only thing she could think of was a request to use the lavatory , but that would tell her little beyond the colour of Veronica 's bathroom suite . |
| 3 | She did , I 'd never forget it as long as I live , I thought to myself well you stupid cow , all she could think of was a fifty pence key , so I , I said to them , I said to the girls I 'm glad to be out but of course when they all went cos there was Lynda and all the girls from customer service that were kicked out and all of us that were there and they all said oh we 've got ta go back to work and we said oh ai n't that a shame you know , and we all went |
| 4 | List at least five things that you could do to be a bargain for your partner . |
| 5 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 6 | I think probably , what we could do with is a some criteria as to what what complaints are going to go to the complaint examiner if we 've only got one of them . |
| 7 | The sort of mix Techno jocks could do with being a lot more open-minded towards . |
| 8 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |
| 9 | There was no privacy for the dead : the most one could hope for was a certain reverence . |
| 10 | ‘ The only car apart from a Rolls-Royce that he could fit into was an extra large Range Rover , ’ says the driver , who also tells hair-raising tales of ferrying Maxwell about town . |
| 11 | Given that N. Langsdorfii could be a perennial in a mild winter and that it seeds itself even more freely , this could go from being a rarity to a ‘ pernicious weed ’ in record time . |
| 12 | Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade 's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability . |
| 13 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 14 | But the clear intelligence failure which let Gen Noriega escape , to organise what could prove to be a prolonged guerrilla resistance , threatens to turn this latest military adventure into a political embarrassment . |
| 15 | But try to channel your activities to the canine crowd so as to avoid a show-down which could prove to be a great embarrassment . |
| 16 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 17 | This could prove to be a particular problem for DHAs left without any relevant directly managed services . |
| 18 | The seventh LDC could prove to be a watershed in the contentious history of ocean dumping . |
| 19 | In the areas of evaluation , widespread dissemination of case studies could prove to be a very useful practical exercise . |
| 20 | All in all , LTK is still the most playable of the Bond games and could prove to be a good addition to anybody 's software collection . |
| 21 | My only gripe is that it could prove to be a little on the easy side for more experienced gamesplayers . |
| 22 | Vigorous opposition to the international arms trade , in an era of intense regional conflict , could prove to be a popular stance . |
| 23 | ‘ The 5-0 defeat at Liverpool on Saturday could prove to be a watershed , just like our 9-0 defeat a few seasons ago . ’ |
| 24 | It was realised very early that the fusion of deuterium nuclei ( deuterons ) could prove to be a copious source of neutrons with possible military applications . |
| 25 | THE England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand could prove to be a mixed blessing thanks to an insufficiently competitive provincial itinerary leading up to the two ‘ tests ’ against a New Zealand XV at the end of the tour . |
| 26 | It could be used in sieges ; it was valuable when used in the open by a lightly armed foot solder ; likewise , a mounted archer , who did not need a first-class horse to ride , could prove to be a very mobile and effective combatant . |
| 27 | In time she would forget him , but the legacy of sensual awareness he had left her could prove to be a burden more difficult to shed . |
| 28 | If the recent huge success of Windows is anything to go by , Windows for Workgroups could prove to be a catalyst pushing many more PC users into the world of networking.Windows for Workgroups has several obvious new features . |
| 29 | But with each loser taking home about £28,000 in prize money courtesy of Pilkington Glass , even the underdogs could afford to be a little more cheerful . |
| 30 | None of the charges quoted was outrageous , £5–6 per page is pretty much the norm but beware of minimum charges , and as the job we tested them on was non-urgent we could afford to be a little more flexible . |