Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In other words , it could be these unspoken messages which altered the classroom climate sufficiently for girls to do better , rather than the simple fact of them being in a single-sex environment . |
| 32 | The climate is right , and we believe it could be sound financial management in a very difficult situation , it 's been referred to , should we borrow . |
| 33 | " The popular vision of climate apocalypse is wrong " according to Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia , who suggests one effect of the trend , if it continues , could be longer growing seasons . |
| 34 | For example , if the direct file were being used by an on-line system there could be several concurrent terminal tasks at any one time using the file , and queues would then develop . |
| 35 | The main point is that even when examples could be non-sex specific , these books make them sex specific . |
| 36 | No suggestion was made during the argument that the landlord 's position could be different depending upon whether it was the original landlord or , as here , a successor in title to the reversion . |
| 37 | Besides helping to understand the primary events of photosynthesis , Tien envisages his thin films could be biomimetic solar energy transducers . |
| 38 | Of course , the aunt could be some other female relative on her father 's side . |
| 39 | Even tonight , there could be some comforting pretence , an assurance of love . |
| 40 | ‘ Could be some straightforward explanation , though . |
| 41 | However , there could be some hasty revision later today . |
| 42 | ‘ That does suggest that there could be some general changes in the law , ’ says Mr Lawrence . |
| 43 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 44 | Even here , she seemed to tell him in her silence , there could be some small love for another sufferer , for a baby . |
| 45 | Prices and rents are likely to fall slowly in most cities , though there could be some serious casualties in the boiling Berlin market as sanity returns . |
| 46 | Alternatively , there could be some underlying fault ( in the control of the immune system , for example ) that makes the body more vulnerable to Candida invasion , on the one hand , and more apt to react inappropriately to foods and chemicals , on the other . |
| 47 | It could be accessory after the fact of murder , or it could be some little thing like obstructing justice in the course of a homicide enquiry . |
| 48 | It could be some secret Franco-Agricultural plot — first the mad French farmers hijack our lamb , now they send over caterpillars to spike our vegetables . |
| 49 | We might think of this variable as the retail price index and label its current value P , but it could be any economic variable . |
| 50 | ‘ Stupid twat ’ could be any central defender : - ) ) hehe . |
| 51 | FRY Prime Minister Milan Panic claimed that the Security Council resolution [ see below ] had set a dangerous precedent , and warned that while " the matter pertains to Yugoslavia today , tomorrow it could be any other country " . |
| 52 | It could be any other thirtysomethings ' flat if it was n't for the sled and cross-country skis on the balcony . |
| 53 | Ernest Gowers , a very far-sighted man , had no hesitation in suggesting a separate council for Scotland and this is what happened ; it is now inconceivable that there could be any other arrangements . |
| 54 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 55 | The intention of these investigations is to ascertain if there could be any adverse effect on the public interest as a result of a particular monopoly or merger situation . |
| 56 | It could be any top fashion show around the world . |
| 57 | It could be any on-shore surgery . ’ |
| 58 | In fact , the courts have now ruled ( in the case of R v Lancashire County Council ex parte CM ) that speech therapy could be special educational provision . |
| 59 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 60 | Has the Minister noticed the press reports that a member of the Ulster Defence Association inner council has claimed that there could be further cross-border attacks by loyalist paramilitaries — a report that was echoed recently by the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ? |