Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! " |
| 2 | ‘ I could hardly be Fairy Godmother , ’ joked Gayle . |
| 3 | But afterwards he felt depressed , and a bit ill , and there was a nagging pain in his chest which could either be indigestion or the start of a heart attack . |
| 4 | Then she was in another bedroom which could only be Luke 's , and on the chest by the window lay the passport . |
| 5 | Every one of her senses sharpened to its utmost Gina entered a world as unreal and beautiful as Tivoli itself , mindlessly letting conscious thought give way to pure sensation , as his voice caressed her ears with words which could only be endearments , husky and broken . |
| 6 | When she could just be Lily Greene , on holiday in Paris . |
| 7 | On the statement emphasising that she could still be Queen , he said : ‘ The situation is very volatile . |
| 8 | I do n't see how she could ever be Queen . |
| 9 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 10 | I was on my way towards the main door of the clubhouse when I saw a cluster of men who could only be journalists . |
| 11 | How had it happened , this tragedy of falling in love with a man who could never be part of her destiny ? |
| 12 | It does take time to become familiar with all the features of the ORIGINAL shaping section but , with patience and practice , you could soon be knee deep in patterns for a whole variety of made to measure designer garments ! |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 14 | The weight of a guitar is another thing ; we could print the weight of one Les Paul Standard , but the next one could easily be 10% heavier , or lighter , so we 'd have misled our readers by giving a poundage . |
| 15 | The fee was a million dollars : there could also be percentages . |
| 16 | There could also be tax help for home buyers and businesses . |
| 17 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 18 | There could also be possibilities for fruitful links between primary schools in different areas of the country . |
| 19 | There could also be parts of the universe containing more anti-matter than matter . |
| 20 | The Thames barrier was proved to work and there could well be tax cuts in the Spring , said Howe . |
| 21 | Many structure plans are being ‘ rolled forward ’ to end in 1996 and there could well be draft policies and proposals in the roll-forward documents . |
| 22 | There could even be occasions then extended coverage in a large number of regional and provincial newspapers is much more useful than a short piece in The Times . |
| 23 | I do n't know , it 's difficult to see that one can make erm , you know , a clear connection if one says well , you know , if the undergraduate is n't sick should we sort of put up with them being particularly rowdy or generally rather offensive , and I think that there could perceivably be problems with attempting to identify , you know , a disciplinary effect offence rather , as lying within the victims . |
| 24 | These can be said to represent only a development from earlier kinds of craft support , but the general situation was qualitatively new , in that work in this area became indispensable , in the advanced technologies , even though there could still be doubt whether such workers were truly part of the cultural production . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you realise , there could never be room for anyone but you . |
| 26 | ‘ They could also be drug-runners who do n't care for strangers . |
| 27 | She says even if they look angelic , they could still be thieves . |
| 28 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 29 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 30 | ‘ It could also be bollocks , could n't it ? ’ |