Example sentences of "[subord] [ex0] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I feel sure they must be rolling in the upper layer of water where there could be more dissolved oxygen than in the lower layer , but so far below surface there is no visible evidence . |
| 3 | The chatterbox will keep talking about anything so long as there is n't a pause where there could be an opportunity to engage brain before mouth . |
| 4 | ‘ … on a piece of ground 3 feet long and 2 feet wide , dug and cleared , and where there could be no choking from other plants , I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up , and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed , chiefly by slugs and insects . |
| 5 | Departments have agreed to notify the local planning authority of development proposals which are likely to be of special concern to the authority or to the public ; for example where there could be a very substantial effect on the character of a conservation area , or where there could be a significant planning impact , visually or otherwise , beyond the department 's own site . |
| 6 | Departments have agreed to notify the local planning authority of development proposals which are likely to be of special concern to the authority or to the public ; for example where there could be a very substantial effect on the character of a conservation area , or where there could be a significant planning impact , visually or otherwise , beyond the department 's own site . |
| 7 | Everyone is assumed to be potentially capable of having sexual relations with a person of either sex , although there could be exceptions at either end of the spectrum , that is , there are some people who are constitutionally unable to be anything other than heterosexual , and some who are unable to be anything other than homosexual . |
| 8 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft are quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 9 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft is quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 10 | He was smiling again , so there could be no harm in telling him . |
| 11 | In the first instance , he did not accept that there were classes among the Muslims , so there could be no class struggle . |
| 12 | This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired . |
| 13 | The survey says : ‘ Those people who are prepared to travel by tunnel may be outvoted by their wives and families , so there could be a knock-on effect . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Having four blank Saturdays makes it hard to get games played , so there could be a one or two week extension . |
| 15 | Looks like there could be an antitrust action against Microsoft Corp whether or not the US Federal Trade Commission , still plodding along with its investigation of the company albeit in ever widening circles , decides to take Bill Gates to court . |
| 16 | If there could be more attempts like this to show mentally handicapped lives in their normality , rather than in a sensational way , the media could play a major role in helping the public to understand more about the lives that handicapped people lead ; that they are not all anguish and broken dreams , but often constructive , fulfilling and as life enhancing as anyone else 's . |
| 17 | But expressing it like this makes it look as if there could be a quality of ‘ in-the-foot-ness ’ , and this is absurd since position is not a quality . |
| 18 | But if there could be no pas de deux , perhaps there could be a ménage à trois . |
| 19 | But if there could be one flower to every four children you could manage with ten or a dozen flowers . |
| 20 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
| 21 | ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . |
| 22 | ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . |
| 23 | Something like that , said Hodgkiss : Wittgenstein asked if there could be a natural history of colour , like the natural history of plants and answered himself that such a natural history was , unlike that of plants , outside time . |
| 24 | He spoke matter-of-factly , as if there could be no possibility of any argument . |
| 25 | The intention of these investigations is to ascertain if there could be any adverse effect on the public interest as a result of a particular monopoly or merger situation . |
| 26 | Our people have been in touch with the police , just checking to see if there could be a terrorist element . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The fact that both Bush and his wife had contracted the disease ( a coincidence estimated at around one in 3,000,000 ) , together with the discovery in 1990 of lumpus ( another auto-immune disease ) in Bush 's dog , Millie , led to the initiation of tests on the drinking water in all houses used by the Bush family to see if there could be an environmental cause of their ailments . |
| 29 | ‘ So did I , ’ said Bunny looking towards the Ladies and wondering if there could be another exit he could n't see . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal said that the plaintiffs would have had the right to review Coopers ' decision only if there could be implied into the original agreement words describing this kind of challenge which qualified the " final and binding " description of the decision in the appropriate manner . |