Example sentences of "which could [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 2 | A rift has opened up within the leadership of the parliament , which could be the beginning of the end for it . |
| 3 | This is , in essence , a truncation of two separate transactions ( a transfer to the wife followed by her subsequent transfer to herself and the third party ) each of which could be the subject of a certificate under The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Categories H and L respectively ) . |
| 4 | Birmingham 's Centenary Square , which could be the Piazza San Marco of the Midlands , is a bleak , rather pointless space linking existing civic buildings with the new Convention Centre . |
| 5 | There is considerable evidence that the multitudinous aspects of SLE may be the result of deficiencies of two members of the prostaglandin group of substances and excesses of others , which could be the result either of one or two related defects in the prostaglandin pathway , or of a single basic defect . |
| 6 | This will allow the business of the firm to continue without the general dissolution which could be the result if the agreement was silent on the point . |
| 7 | The project involves the development of a ten kilowatt turbine , with a four metre rotor , which could be the forerunner of a larger machine . |
| 8 | Since all mammals evolved from a common ancestral stock we would expect their brains and bodies to have large numbers of common features which could be the basis of a reasonable level of extrapolation ( Sarnat and Netsky 1981 ) . |
| 9 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 10 | When teachers give them a few simple objects ( cardboard boxes , old clothes , bits of material , and the like ) which could be the basis for playful construction , the children do n't know what to do . |
| 11 | This view was then modified by the ‘ young Hegelians ’ , a group of radical followers and critics of Hegel who argues that it was only the reformed or purified State which could be the source of a just society . |
| 12 | He admired Jotan 's detachment , and concluded that it was the lack of direct involvement which made it possible for him to behave as if nothing had occurred which could be the source of concern . |