Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dissolved barriers , broke down prejudices and significantly increased the experience that could properly be thought appropriate in a musico-theatrical work . |
| 2 | the gay male parody of a certain femininity , which , as others have argued , may itself be an elaborate social construct , is both a way of giving vent to the hostility toward women that probably afflicts every male ( and which male heterosexuals have of course expressed in infinitely nastier and more effective ways ) and could paradoxically be thought of as helping to deconstruct that image for women themselves … |
| 3 | maybe , maybe , people could just be thinking or , you know if they hear of somebody who might be able to come and give a talk like your friend who , who was very good , erm , you know , we could make a note of it and , or ask people , you know , could talk to talk or something that sort . |
| 4 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 5 | In fact , it could easily be thought that increased alcohol consumption could result just in the increased incidence of recurrent pancreatitis . |
| 6 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 7 | Here " head " ( , ) and " pate " ( ) are the pair , and are perhaps completely synonymous ( though the latter could reasonably be thought more specific or " concrete " than the former ) . |
| 8 | A trick , certainly ; in a sense too , a trick which results in a form of self-incrimination ; but not one which could reasonably be thought to involve unfairness . |
| 9 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 10 | And yet Stewart 's small wandering world could well be thought the richer of the two environments . |
| 11 | The signs are that West Germany will still insist that the EMU negotiations start after its election on December 2nd , not least because the fusion of the Ostmark and the D-mark will inevitably distract minds in the Bundesbank and the finance ministry that could otherwise be thinking about EMU . |