Example sentences of "could be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardwick recommended that the man 's loss should be paid , even though there could be no legal claim , and this was done . |
| 2 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 3 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 4 | Polish Foreign Minister Krzystof Skubiszewski told the Sejm that the implications of the friendship treaty went beyond Polish-German relations ; without agreement between the two countries , he said , there could be no unified Europe . |
| 5 | On April 20 two leading opposition groups — the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ( FLAM ) and the United Front for Armed Resistance ( FURAM ) — said in a joint statement that without Taya 's resignation and a general amnesty there could be no genuine democracy . |
| 6 | If power was so defined that the observer had a subjective latitude in applying the concept , then there could be no neutral standard whereby the observer could judge the actions of statesmen and women . |
| 7 | There could be no early start : the lads ' co-operation was needed and we always found it difficult to agree on rules . |
| 8 | As the family had to accept that Ollie was top dog , there could be no equal treatment for the gentler and older Stan — Ollie had to be favoured in all things . |
| 9 | " Oh , it 's still raining much too hard for that , " said Cowslip , as though there could be no two ways about it . |
| 10 | The foregoing would , of course , mean that property rights were not for the dispensation of some imagined ‘ god ’ of early superstitious religion , but existed by virtue of the fact that human beings have , in the course of time , generally agreed that such a right was ‘ good ’ , for the reason that without it there could be no peaceful existence and no contentment . |
| 11 | There could be no clearer indicator of the indifference and contempt in which the Government hold those on the lowest incomes than the Government 's exclusive concern with our tax proposals , without even a glimmer of a mention of those who will benefit from them . |
| 12 | There could be no clearer example of the Opposition 's blind and blinkered approach to these matters than that proposal . |
| 13 | There could be no clearer indication than this of the blending of the concentric circular geometric and the geometric diagonal or rotated linear designs . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a watershed because there could be no clearer definition of the political direction in which Mr Montgomery wants to steer the Mirror Group . ’ |
| 15 | In practice , the result at best would be the confusion which must result when two bodies serving different purposes and interests are equally the ultimate custodians ; and the large probability is that there could be no effective accountability at all . |
| 16 | With peace and the French alliance , there could be no effective barrier to French influence . |
| 17 | All the blood drained from Folly 's face as she listened , straining for the meaning that eluded her ears , and yet at the same time knowing that there could be no innocent explanation . |
| 18 | There could be no Durkheimian solution to such ills , for Freud 's model of man-in-society included the idea of instinctual gratification and repression , and it is this dimension which is lacking in Durkheim 's thought . |
| 19 | There could be no grander nor more characteristic view of the mountains capes of these Atlantic Pyrenees than the one you see from the road or the slopes around Ahusquy . |
| 20 | They argued that under imperialism there could be no separate ‘ national question ’ . |
| 21 | The shifting patterns of concurrent production meant that there could be no regular correlation between particular skeleton formes [ with their identifiable running titles ] and particular compositors or presses . |
| 22 | For as long as the war lasted , she would be a part of the Royal Navy and there could be no remembered yesterdays , no thoughts of tomorrow . |
| 23 | I believe that Eton now admits women to its sixth form , but nevertheless there could be no serious doubt about which was the man and which was the woman . |
| 24 | Weismann , who was the first to raise so many important questions , suggested that animals senesce because , if they did not , there could be no successive replacement of individuals and hence no evolution . |
| 25 | Artistic creativity , in Yakovlev 's view , served the needs of society for self-understanding and self-knowledge ; without it there could be no moral progress or human development . |
| 26 | I tiptoed to find a sacred vessel to keep your hair in , mouth humming with its knowing:you were here , with me , loving me , kissing me , holding me and could be no closer . |
| 27 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 28 | To my mind there could be no greater re-education than that offered by the Alexander Technique . |
| 29 | Indeed , there could be no greater contrast than that between the social security benefits that have been made liable to tax , and therefore reduced in value , and the way in which the Thatcher Governments have allowed the value of tax benefits to escalate . |
| 30 | Mr Ben Plowden , energy and minerals campaigner for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , said : ‘ There could be no worse time to allow an extension to Whatley when major changes in national minerals policy are almost inevitable . ’ |