Example sentences of "[noun] could be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said today that his mainstream Fatah faction approved a self-rule deal with Israel and mutual recognition could be only days away . |
| 2 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 3 | Argentina 's crop could be around 10m tonnes . |
| 4 | What is important about Griffith , however , is that his demonstration that feature films could be both art and social treatise was not inspired by any narrow or specific intellectual or doctrinal position . |
| 5 | The Welsh Office is providing £2.7m of extra cash for the whole of Wales this year to help reduce waiting lists , and although yet to be finalised , Clwyd 's share could be around £400,000 , says health authority treasurer , Nigel Morris . |
| 6 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 7 | of the defence budget and that no other known system could be so cost effective but still provide the same degree of security ? |
| 8 | If only Fen could be both friend and lover to her . |