Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could rather be the context itself that is determining the nature of the exchanges . |
| 2 | Today it 's a cycleway in part of what could eventually be a network of 140 miles of routes linking towns and villages throught the Forest of Dean . |
| 3 | This is very much in line with hypotheses d ) and e ) , outlined above , and means that if a proper ban is reconfirmed , there could suddenly be a lot more bans where this one ( nearly ) came from . |
| 4 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 5 | Above all , there was Mrs Thatcher 's uniquely close link with President Reagan — but this , too , could only be a temporary phenomenon . |
| 6 | They said the cabinet 's resignation could only be a first step in an attempt to regain credibility . |
| 7 | This fear of a new apocalypse began in deep secrecy the previous August when the fall-out from what could only be a Russian atomic test was detected . |
| 8 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 9 | But such a calculation could only be a gamble . |
| 10 | Jerusalem , the very heart of Christendom , had been captured and it could only be a matter of time before the remaining Christian forces , still holding on at Tyre , Tripoli and Antioch , were overcome or expelled . |
| 11 | I , however , could only be a nun like my aunt or I could be like my Mam . |
| 12 | Natural theology , even of Brunner 's qualified kind , could only be a snare and a delusion , a thing in which one ought to have no interest except that properly shown for an abyss beside the path — the interest whose concern is to avoid falling into it . |
| 13 | As for de Gaulle , his views were already well-known , and it could only be a matter of time before he attacked Hallstein and his Commission . |
| 14 | Prior to the legislation this right could only be a moral one ; once enacted it would have legal standing as well . |
| 15 | The Dwarfs sent word to the Dwarf capital of Karaz a Karak high in the Worlds Edge Mountains , explaining that the Night Goblins were virtually holding them prisoners within their own citadel and that without reinforcements it could only be a matter of time before the Dwarfs were defeated . |
| 16 | The other four supervisors , however , had one advantage over Mr. Carrick : they were all political friends of Lord Melville , and for that reason their removal could only be a temporary demotion . |
| 17 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 18 | At work , he could only be a trade unionist . |
| 19 | It could only be a body of free , indigenous men . |
| 20 | Her own sordid story could only be a bad influence on such a young and impressionable mind . |
| 21 | And now there was the loud crashing retort of what could only be a pistol shot , joined immediately by the rattling , roaring sound of thunder in the sky . |
| 22 | A gimmick like that could only be a small part of Cud now . ’ |
| 23 | Given Jacqui 's simple character , it could only be a man . |
| 24 | It could only be a matter of time before Wainfleet was using the information for his own purposes . |
| 25 | ‘ It could only be a madman , could n't it ? |
| 26 | Though from what I 've read about eighteenth-century Eton , anything that came after that could only be a pleasant relief . ’ |
| 27 | But she sees him suppress what could only be a smirk at her very mention of a dybbuk . |
| 28 | On the face of it , this could only be a good thing . |
| 29 | It could only be a matter of time , though , before we got together . |
| 30 | Brizan claimed that the budget , coming so soon after the general election , could only be a " holding operation " until the NDC administration was able to undertake reforms , and he announced the creation of a committee to review the fiscal policies of the previous Blaize administration . |