Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be rather more welcome if comics could still be comics . |
| 2 | Darwin 's conclusion then , in direct contrast to that of his even more orthodox Captain , was that the Galapagos finches could only be varieties , and were therefore not worth collecting carefully . |
| 3 | Our two days off duty every twelve days could now be spend with our families , flying either from Aberdeen or Edinburgh airports and this made all the difference to working in Scotland . |
| 4 | The picture is complicated by the existence at certain points in the past of a relatively large number of households which contained servants ; but people classified as servants could also be kin , for example older children of a family whose parents could not support them economically . |
| 5 | Other Ediacaran taxa could also be protostomes . |
| 6 | But prison reformers say experience shows Gardiner 's claims could well be true.Ken Goodwin reports . |
| 7 | Householders could also be losers if they need to call repairmen . |
| 8 | The genes encoding TFIIA from yeast cells could recently be cloned. yTFIIA consists of two subunits termed TOA I and TOA II with a molecular mass of 32.2 and 13.5 kDa , respectively ( 17 ) . |