Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 2 | Strathtay could be successful in Tayside , and Stagecoach elsewhere . |
| 3 | He could be vehement in denunciation . |
| 4 | Judging from this and its unusual style , the key could be late in period ( 3rd or 4th century ) , although I have no hard evidence to support this view . |
| 5 | This could be due in part to the fact that the only guitars I could draw any parallels with , in terms of appearance , were the infamous Jedsons of the late '60s and early '70s , guitars which many of us have nightmares about even now . |
| 6 | Lehr Brisbin , of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina , believes that radiocaesium , which accumulates in those tissues eaten by humans , could be present in quantities hundreds of times higher than the average in the area . |
| 7 | Dr Dan Tunstall Pedoe , consultant cardiologist at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , and chairman of the British Association of Sport and Medicine , said heart disease could be present in people who appeared extremely fit . |
| 8 | Then with school looming ominously on the next day 's horizon there was a stampede home to see who could be first in bed . |
| 9 | Investors in soon-to-mature MTNs could be first in line for payment if the deal with GE Capital can be pushed through in time . |
| 10 | The introduction of the test for drivers , which could be available in April , has been prompted by the realisation that driver error is responsible for 95 per cent of road accidents which kill 14 people a day on UK roads . |
| 11 | The booklet would be too big to be given away , but could be available in tourist offices etc for a reasonable price . |
| 12 | In an ecosystem , identification of the trophic levels within the feeding hierarchy could be necessary in studies of specific areas which could then proceed to establish ‘ what eats what ’ and therefore how the trophic structure is built up . |
| 13 | The weather has been terribly wet here , I do n't think it could be worse in England — but now at last the rain seems to have stopped . |
| 14 | Thus , in the case of a general exclusion clause , is it possible that a clause could be enforceable in respect of some classes of liability controlled by the UCTA , but not in respect of others ? |
| 15 | If a program is licensed by a publisher , the program author could be liable in negligence even though he is not a party to the licence agreement . |
| 16 | The House of Lords held that the valuer could be liable in negligence . |
| 17 | One is the performance aspect because every time we need to access the relational database across the network we have to send a large piece of transactional logic , a piece of S Q L code , across the network , and that could be significant in size . |
| 18 | The technical staff had difficulty verifying the up-to-date status of information being used , which could be significant in terms of accuracy of work produced . |
| 19 | The German Cabinet , by accepting that reduced price subsidies for farmers could be acceptable in exchange for guarantees of direct income compensation , apparently left France and Ireland isolated within the European Communities on this highly contentious aspect of the agricultural trade protectionism issue . |
| 20 | For example , high-bandwidth cable could be vital in services in which people ‘ dial up ’ their banks from home to conduct financial transactions , perhaps with organisations at the other end of the country or even abroad . |
| 21 | A Defined ‘ God ’ Could be Vital in Sickness and Healing |
| 22 | But many AFBD members are disturbed by the implication that they could be answerable in London to a foreign regulator . |
| 23 | ‘ I know , but there was a piece in a polo magazine the other day saying many women were ten in beauty , but never could be ten in polo . |
| 24 | You know I wish I was , I could be happy in misery . |
| 25 | He could be shrewd in analysis , as when he told Eden that if war came ‘ the country will want [ Churchill ] to lead them ’ , but that Eden 's chances were better in peace . |