Example sentences of "[det] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Daniel Waley 's admirable Italian City-Republics there is a map featuring some sixty or seventy Italian towns with a history worth recording in the mid and late Middle Ages ; of these roughly half could reasonably be called ‘ hill towns ’ , and most of them lie in Umbria and Tuscany . |
| 2 | When confronted with ten identical T-shirts , over half could still detect their own odours . |
| 3 | This could just as well be art as social work or joining a religious movement . |
| 4 | ‘ But wait a minute , ’ Ace interrupted , ‘ this could just as easily be the idea of a human as these Old Ones of yours . |
| 5 | This could just possibly be accurate reporting of a three-year-old show-stealer . |
| 6 | But this could just be one big red herring . |
| 7 | Some schemes allow you to give up part of your pension for cohabitees or other adult dependants , and this could also be worth checking on . |
| 8 | This could also be a good time to look at your yard layout . |
| 9 | This could also suggest candidate words in conjunction with other information , if the unknown word is a content word . |
| 10 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 11 | This could also be a place to introduce vocabulary your students will need in order to be able to follow the programme . |
| 12 | This could also have been done in the penultimate chord , but we have chosen to avoid it by using a bass ( E ) which is mildly dissonant with an upper note ( F ) . ) |
| 13 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 14 | This could also be attractive to a sponsor . |
| 15 | This could also be carried out for the polymer , but as it makes no difference which one is taken ( both having started from ΔG M ) , equation ( 8.33 ) is more convenient to use . |
| 16 | If , as intimated earlier , the proportion of asymptomatic recurrences was greater in the active treatment group , this could also lead to bias , and underestimation of the frequency of cisapride recurrences relative to placebo . |
| 17 | This could also explain the difference in biliary lipid secretion rate between the two groups . |
| 18 | Of course to go back to something I think Kirsty or somebody said , erm this could also happen un unconsciously could n't it ? |
| 19 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |
| 20 | This could also be the motive behind the Creole refusals of requests which were discussed earlier . |
| 21 | This could also contribute to retention validation . |
| 22 | But environmentalists warn that this could also result in third world countries being the destination of some of the toxic materials which are left at the end of the recycling process . |
| 23 | Water , having penetrated the roofing felt ( this could even be in the middle of the roof ) , could run along a joist and give problems with the wall . |
| 24 | This could even be the reason why drinking coffee is so addictive . |
| 25 | This could even be considered two separate blocks . |
| 26 | This could even be true without there being any external warfare in which some of the members might engage . |
| 27 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 28 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 29 | Some sceptics have been quick to see that this could well be a familiar pointer to the future — suggest a service for closure in the hope that the relevant council will come up with the money to reprieve it . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact , this could well become essential during the 1990s , ’ he said . |