Example sentences of "could [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would report to the Home Secretary and could be former armed forces officers , diplomats , academics , or even trade union officials . |
| 2 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 3 | But there never could be such an observer — at least not if his thought-processes were to be analysed in the same way as ours — because his thoughts about the relations of the particulars would themselves be just a succession of particulars whose relations , which give them meaning , were not directly accessible to him . |
| 4 | Reading his letters about dogs , you incubate a silent fury that any intelligent man could be such an idiot . |
| 5 | In the East , ‘ there could be such a lust for reunification for economic reasons , to get access to the prosperity of West Germany , that it will pressurise all the existing political parties into embracing reunification . ’ |
| 6 | I was surprised she even knew what sandpaper was ; but I could be such a fool in not knowing people . |
| 7 | The agony was unimaginable ; she had never thought that there could be such pain in the world . |
| 8 | ‘ She could be such a positive force for the organisations she purports to feel for , such as CARE , a charity for abused children . ’ |
| 9 | That today 's Cambridge scene could be such a fake ? |
| 10 | It 's hard to believe such great fishing could be such good value for money until you try it yourself . |
| 11 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 12 | Mackie thinks the idea that there could be such inherently prescriptive properties and relations , which are part of the genuine fabric of the world . |
| 13 | It was strange that an impulsive , warm person could be such a calculating lover . |
| 14 | The idea that there could be such authority without effective power hardly occurred to anyone . |
| 15 | It is certainly true that popular rule , conceived of in the simplest terms , does not logically imply a commitment to respect for individual liberty : there could be such a thing as popular tyranny , or a popularly endorsed tyranny . |
| 16 | I went to meet him and was deeply disappointed to discover that the head of a bank could be such a short , bald , rather fat individual . |
| 17 | Even her shoes , he noted with a glance down , were expensive , and shoes could be such a giveaway . |
| 18 | Dauntless Javelot had never imagined a woman could be such abrasive company . |
| 19 | The inspector from the education department who could be such a trial came to the opening ceremony . |
| 20 | And it could be such a disappointment . |
| 21 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 22 | But I find it hard to believe there could be such a petty reason . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It could be such a nice room to have breakfast . ’ |
| 24 | All kinds of circumstances could be such situations . |
| 25 | Oh dear , Willi could be such a fool . |
| 26 | She found herself wondering how often he thought of his lady friend in America , and feeling sorry for a man who could be such fun , but who spent so much of his time working . |
| 27 | The result could be many hundreds of independents in the UK by the end of the next decade . |
| 28 | It could be many years before the Department of Trade and Industry decided to take action — or not , as in the case of the brewers . |
| 29 | Then allow the particles to move apart in such a way that the combined wave function does not change even though the distance between the particles may be so great that there is no longer any possibility of mutual interaction : in principle this could be many kilometres . |
| 30 | ‘ I explain that there could be many reasons . |