Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salam , 84 , a Sunni Muslim , is the most impressive of Lebanon 's dying breed of elder statesmen , but his words could have been those of a much younger man . |
| 2 | Anything Richard could suggest was irresistible and Tory nodded . |
| 3 | BRM was in decline , the best Niki could do was one fifth place in Zolder . |
| 4 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 5 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 6 | ‘ With all the stuff that had gone on prior to the match and then the conditions we had to play in , the result could have been worse for Rangers but for our goalkeeper , ’ Gough admitted . |
| 7 | This result could have been due to the inclusion of mostly elderly patients in the control group who may have been harbouring M tuberculosis from a primary asymptomatic tuberculous infection , which was common in their youth . |
| 8 | ‘ The result could have been terrible . |
| 9 | Of course , just because a rule could have been different does n't mean that you should ignore it . |
| 10 | This was sad , but we believe that the figure could have been nearer 1,500 . ’ |
| 11 | The best England could offer was 51 from Gooch and 49 from Lamb , and just before tea they were all out for 159 . |
| 12 | One trusts that its astronomers were n't quite the size of Patrick Moore or getting to work could have been problematic . |
| 13 | It was unthinkable that Mick could have been right . |
| 14 | ‘ For all I knew , the inn could have been full . |
| 15 | The WRU could have been diplomatic and should have consulted officials from the clubs concerned after the last 16 matches to see what they wanted instead . |
| 16 | Korea 's choice of shipbuilding shortly before the shipbuilding and especially the tanker market virtually collapsed in the mid-1970s could have been disastrous . |
| 17 | After its turbid passage through the twin cities the Ankh could have been one of them . |
| 18 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 19 | Even for an experienced choreographer , the suspense could have been hair-raising . |
| 20 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 21 | The sentence could have been higher . ’ |
| 22 | The nuns , therefore , had no opportunity to determine whether the Ministry could have been wrong , she said . |
| 23 | What the urban population could use is better trains |
| 24 | Mr Lightman claimed that if the jury which had awarded the £600,000 had known that Mrs Sutcliffe was not adverse to taking money for her story , the outcome could have been different . |
| 25 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 26 | Even their stormy temperament or compulsive generosity could have been different . |
| 27 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 28 | Government agents were suspected , but it was also realised that a freelance group could have been responsible for the killings . |
| 29 | Haslemere were the play-makers in the second half and the score could have been higher but for some excellent goalkeeping by Simon Fish . |
| 30 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |