Example sentences of "[ex0] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a private activity there could be no objection to Christian members calling their fellow-believers to prayer , and I suppose that I and fellow-members of the British Humanist Association could have similarly organized a non-official meeting . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | There could be no doubt at all that he was dead . |
| 4 | There could be as many more — dozens more — about whom she knew absolutely nothing at all . |
| 5 | But surely , she reasoned , where there could be no reason , surely sex does n't have to bring with it the pain of need , longing , the fear of rejection ? |
| 6 | He was smiling again , so there could be no harm in telling him . |
| 7 | I would not say that the developmental view is a consequence of the thoughtaction analogy exactly , because there could be constructivist theories that do not mention development . |
| 8 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 9 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 10 | The caution he gave regarding their use implied that , despite being water based , there could be hazard in their application . |
| 11 | For ornamental carving and small sculpture , there could be a wider range of smaller tools 10mm and under . |
| 12 | With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side . |
| 13 | Barry and brother and fellow co-director Robert will need all the confidence they can get because there could be troubled times ahead . |
| 14 | Given that this was all well-known at the outset what utter fool would believe there could be any money to be made out of such a system . |
| 15 | Publicly the banks have suggested that there could be dire consequences for the City should the deals be ruled illegal . |
| 16 | Every country has its own system for using frequencies , and they have to think about each other — radio waves , after all do not stop at national boundaries and without international collaboration there could be interference and general chaos . |
| 17 | There could be exhibitions of the best tapestries and textiles , the finest portraiture , the most outstanding silver ; or the best of a certain period drawn together from National Trust houses ; and perhaps linked displays on craftmanship , techniques , restoration and conservation . |
| 18 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 19 | Jurgen Warnke , the deputy chairman of the right-wing Christian Social party warned that there could be violence and the whole East German security apparatus could be deployed to ensure the survival of the regime . |
| 20 | In a tighter advertising market there could be a fall out among smaller and private agencies . |
| 21 | There were no plans to make major cuts in the 1,145-branch building society network , though there could be ‘ the odd closure ’ . |
| 22 | If there was a fire or other emergency , there could be panic and havoc . |
| 23 | The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy . |
| 24 | The judgments in notorious cases which had decided that there could be unfettered administrative discretion were repudiated . |
| 25 | He said that support for the opposition was growing , but many were still afraid — not surprisingly , as opposition leaders have already had officially-inspired warnings that , when the weekend 's official jubilation is over , there could be a new clampdown . |
| 26 | Roy Dennis , North of Scotland officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said there could be as few as 2,000 left in the highlands , an 80 per cent decline in the past 15 years . |
| 27 | Even with that level of scrutiny , there could be little hope of containing fraud , which is already a serious drain on the EC 's coffers and on its reputation . |
| 28 | Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble . |
| 29 | However , they believe there could be some hope of recovering lines of credit which were extended by International Signal and Control to a number of European intermediaries . |
| 30 | There could be no more concrete evidence of our commitment to that group . ’ |