Example sentences of "could [adv] be [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 2 | The Committee begins by expressing surprise that the position of English within the educational system has " scarcely any history " However , such a revelation could only be surprising in the light of the Committee " s own characterization of " English " as a discipline of education , dependent in itself upon quite recent social developments ( see pp. 44–5 ) . |
| 3 | There was that thing Mrs Hollidaye said , about how each person could only be brave in their own way and there was n't room on earth for everybody to be a hero . |
| 4 | Throughout the talks the Rev. Ian Paisley , the leader of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) , had continued to insist that the Irish government could not be involved in the talks until new political arrangements had emerged to the satisfaction of the principal constitutional parties in the province . |
| 5 | If suffering could not be relieved in a manner acceptable to doctors , patients would just have to put up with it . |
| 6 | They also say the coach driver could not be responsible in any way for the accident . |
| 7 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 8 | We have seen that a persistent principle since 1906 had been that an act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of trade dispute could not be actionable in tort on the ground of inducing another person to break a contract . |
| 9 | Yes , I do as we were told in paragraph that ‘ he could not be comfortable in his mind while one walked unpunished who had questioned his breeding or his courage . ’ |
| 10 | If it was not free from unwelcome intervention the papacy could not be active in what it saw as its role . |
| 11 | Living in a racially articulated and predicated world , I could not be alone in reacting to this aspect of the American cultural and historical condition . |
| 12 | So Doctor Who could not be obvious in its audience approach . |
| 13 | Vitamin E is available from so many food sources that no normal diet could possibly be deficient in it . |
| 14 | as if he could possibly be interested in his assistant 's hobbies ! |
| 15 | They 've been withdrawn from sale , but its feared other mowers with similar cabling could still be available in shops around Britain . |
| 16 | He would enjoy taking charge of the situation , compelling Underwood to marry Clare , showing her that he could still be charitable in spite of the past . |
| 17 | In addition to antibiotics , it should be recognised that enzymes are microbial products which could also be involved in the biocontrol action , for example , by causing the lysis of the cell walls of pathogens during the phenomenon of mycoparasitism ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 18 | Mimicking a hawk could also be useful in Africa , the European cuckoo 's wintering ground , where birds of prey are numerous . |
| 19 | The draw could also be decisive in the Cartier Million , run on the dog-leg straight at Phoenix Park , and Cumani has again been fortunate with Cullinan ( 4.0 ) , drawn 16 of 20 . |
| 20 | The MOI could also be helpful in liaising between film companies and government departments , and even put finance into the occasional film such as 49th Parallel ( 1941 , The Invaders in US ) , Powell-Pressburger's skilful piece of star-studded propaganda . |
| 21 | But Amin Rajan could also be right in predicting that financial houses will have a declining influence in the City . |
| 22 | The genetic impact on the mucosal IgG subclass response could also be different in the two diseases . |
| 23 | This character , first proposed by Koehler ( 1904 ) , could also be important in separating groups within Ophiura . |
| 24 | The old English folksong demonstrates that they could often be sinister in their intent , waylaying passers-by and snatching at the wind with skinny , white hands : |
| 25 | Local higher education departments could often be interested in carrying out interviews — a bookseller 's own staff would not be trained in the techniques and would inevitably be biased . |
| 26 | She could n't be involved in a police investigation . |
| 27 | It could well be useful in certain respiratory conditions he thought , but there was a danger that just as a candle burns out much quicker in oxygen , one might ‘ live out too fast ’ . |
| 28 | Since the Root Thesaurus did not emerge until 1981 , it has not had a great impact on existing thesauri to date , but it could well be important in the future . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , visiting could undoubtedly be important in enabling closer relationships to develop between grandparents and grandchildren . |
| 30 | It may be an indication of other problems in the urinary tract some of which could potentially be serious in the long term . |