Example sentences of "could be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well , yeah I was just , you you could see them for , just thinking that perhaps you could be slightly biased in one when |
| 32 | At the same time he could be penetratingly serious ; but , above all , he was poignantly lovable . |
| 33 | The aim is to isolate the realistic changes in CAP which could be environmentally helpful , and model consequent changes in land use and employment . |
| 34 | Purists could be utterly ruthless about the menace working-class immorality posed to the middle-class home . |
| 35 | Not all of could be sampled by the questionnaire but comparison with the 1991 census figures suggests that the number of children in the catchment area could be over three hundred . |
| 36 | Pakistan should be even better as a five-day team than they proved they could be over 50 overs . |
| 37 | While official figures put the death toll at between 1,500 and 2,000 since the start of the insurgency in 1984 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] , other sources estimated that the figure could be over 2,500 [ see also p. 36565 ] . |
| 38 | Rates may vary a lot around these averages with hire purchase ( could be up to 40 per cent ) , shop accounts ( say , between 0 and 31 per cent ) , finance company loans ( up to 50 per cent ) , finance company second mortgages ( could be over 40 per cent ) . |
| 39 | To avoid losing what could be over half a million lost business opportunities each year telephone training consultants , Teleconomy , were engaged to help us provide a more effective service . |
| 40 | Here , as so often , the protesting voices of the philosophic counter culture became the norm accepted by Christians : for them no place could be inherently sacred . |
| 41 | I do n't think we could be completely drug-free , I mean obviously medical conditions dictate that you have to take medi , medicines |
| 42 | Then , for all you know , I could be completely amoral ? |
| 43 | Not even master painters could be completely infallible ! |
| 44 | ‘ The Horns Of Jericho ’ could be just that , an electronic approximation of that fateful trumpet blast that shakes the rafters . |
| 45 | What you could have done say was this one here that 's marked E does n't have to be all of those who supported Everton , it could be just that bit . |
| 46 | It could be just one of these occasions when your home really is being ransacked . |
| 47 | Your selection to receive this invitation , and the allocation , exclusively to you , of seven numbers that you alone can enter in the draw , means that you could be just one step away from winning the first prize in this £40,000 draw — which would give you the choice that I mentioned between a lump sum and an income for life . |
| 48 | ‘ Green and yellow — you could be just one more spring flower . ’ |
| 49 | The general findings of the feasibility study were that a WDF plant could be just profitable , but that at present , neither the quality nor quantity of the feedstock , at an acceptable price , is assured . |
| 50 | so white line with a black thing through could be just sixty |
| 51 | In 1991 there were 3.3 workers per pensioner ; by 2030 there could be just 2.2 . |
| 52 | It could be just another trap and what with Mr Bishop and Gazzer , there had been too many of those lately . |
| 53 | That said , I suspect this performance advantage could be even better with S3 's more powerful graphics accelerator , the 82C928 . |
| 54 | I suppose it means meeting fewer people and in that way is a loss to you , but if you get on well with your lady that could be even better , and it is good that you have weekends free . |
| 55 | If war erupts in the Gulf , the figures could be even lower , concedes Robert Stempel , GM 's chairman . |
| 56 | At the 1989 meeting , ‘ the subcommittee concluded that the take was clearly not sustainable and that , depending on the stock composition of the catch , the situation could be even worse than was immediately apparent . |
| 57 | If you 're self-employed the outlook could be even worse . |
| 58 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 59 | What could be even worse ? |
| 60 | What could be even worse than that ? |