Example sentences of "there could [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Backs enchanted me , and I thought that there could surely be no lovelier ecclesiastical building in the country , and perhaps all Europe , than King 's Chapel , with its perfect fan-vaulting and its jewelled windows staining with glorious blue the white-gold stone . |
| 2 | There could also be a Commercial Court of Appeal with its own , higher paid , judges . |
| 3 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 4 | There could also be a pot of money in a change for the manufacturers . |
| 5 | There could also be a price explosion leading to a collapse of the UK market which is currently the most important . |
| 6 | There could also be parts of the universe containing more anti-matter than matter . |
| 7 | There could also be tax help for home buyers and businesses . |
| 8 | The fee was a million dollars : there could also be percentages . |
| 9 | There could also be more dialogue between practitioners , their managers and their professional associations about issues that might benefit from research . |
| 10 | If the merchandise is valuable and indeed even if it is not , there could also be a problem of pilferage . |
| 11 | There could also be well-person clinics . |
| 12 | There could also be a brief introduction on which direction to do the route ; and the eventual booklet should include information on how to get back ( ? by public transport ) to the starting point — this can , I imagine , be supplied by the Council . |
| 13 | There could also be possibilities for fruitful links between primary schools in different areas of the country . |
| 14 | The rival factions involved were sometimes family groups whose hostility was longstanding , but there could also be a local clerical faction : archdeacons tended to have high hopes of gaining the episcopate and could mobilize a body of support . |
| 15 | There could also be real decline in the 18 to 30 holiday market as the structure of British society changed , with an ageing population , fewer marriages , smaller families , more people living alone and a declining workforce , said Mintel . |
| 16 | There could also be an own brand product in the very near future . |
| 17 | ‘ There could just be an element of risk involved for her . |
| 18 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 19 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 20 | There could well be an under culture in the school of which adults are unaware . |
| 21 | The Thames barrier was proved to work and there could well be tax cuts in the Spring , said Howe . |
| 22 | There could well be a problem of interference amongst all these users . |
| 23 | Many structure plans are being ‘ rolled forward ’ to end in 1996 and there could well be draft policies and proposals in the roll-forward documents . |
| 24 | Four is a much more logical number and if the hobby is to be taken very seriously , with regular work for the ferrets available , there could well be a need for six . |
| 25 | Now would seem to be a good time to buy PCs , but there could well be a certain amount of hassle before your new wonder computer is up and running properly . |
| 26 | There could well be , she continued , a case for the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 27 | When eventually interviewed regarding the suspected offence there could well be a denial and whilst not essential , the prosecution case would be much stronger if corroboration is available regarding the driver 's identity . |
| 28 | There could well be some of this between a male and female as they pair , but if they do not settle down then you can assume they are both males . |
| 29 | In some instances , however , there could well be an underlying medical problem , which requires veterinary treatment . |
| 30 | He is even daring enough to suggest that there could well be a mainframe revival in the next 18 months — depending on vendors ' willingness to slash prices and beef up the competition within the market . |