Example sentences of "could [be] " in BNC.

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1 Each Market Day , from lunchtime on , his trap , with a very patient pony in the shafts , could been seen waiting outside The Cathedral Hotel in Milford Street .
2 But er I suppose in a lot of senses it could been worse .
3 With the pneumonias , the interval between early chest infection and death could be as little as 12 hours in someone outwardly fit and well .
4 Once you 've taken the drug , your next decision could be influenced by that drug .
5 If you say YES — that could be your last free decision .
6 Of course , all sources of information must be confirmed as credible — sources could be using AI as a propaganda tool .
7 A closed hearing held in February this year concluded that no-one could be held responsible for the death .
8 The need to obtain an entry visa from an embassy often situated far away could be dangerous and could therefore hinder departure .
9 This year 's 30th Anniversary could be our chance to make the 90s the decade in which groups shoot ahead .
10 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 .
11 Her argument was that the subjects of the old master paintings could be disregarded by a painter who wished to find lessons for the present in the artistic practice of the past .
12 Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever .
13 There are shows which could be grouped under the heading of historical exhibitions ; there are mixed exhibitions and group exhibitions of works by living artists ; and there are exhibitions in dealers ' galleries , notably solo shows .
14 These examples of catalogues containing helpful art criticism could be contrasted with many others which are limited to lists of exhibitions , details of the artist 's career , and entries for the works displayed .
15 It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes .
16 Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description .
17 It was Roger Fry 's contention that an object , say a bunch of carrots on a market stall , could be viewed in a practical way as something to eat for supper , or aesthetically .
18 In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island .
19 Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England .
20 Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas .
21 The question could be thought to arise of whether they are seeking revenge .
22 I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise .
23 Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined .
24 Neither of these books , however , could be said to be intent on revenge .
25 But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society .
26 The two poems could be thought to occupy a common ground which goes some way beyond topography , and includes a stretch of the common ground occupied by imitation .
27 The suffering and self-conscious first-person singular manifested in Dyer could be considered a creation of the Gothic novel that came after him , and Dyer can also bring to mind the magus of a time before .
28 The motto refers to a dynastic permanence ; but it could be stolen for this novel , where a ‘ now and always ’ is on show .
29 And it could be said that not only is it about imitation — it is also , as are other tours de force , itself an imitation of something .
30 This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying .
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