Example sentences of "there could be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court at first instance in Pappa v Rose ( 1871 ) LR 7 CP 32 thought it significant that " umpirage " had not been reached because in its view there could be no real dispute before that stage . |
| 2 | Polish Foreign Minister Krzystof Skubiszewski told the Sejm that the implications of the friendship treaty went beyond Polish-German relations ; without agreement between the two countries , he said , there could be no unified Europe . |
| 3 | If power was so defined that the observer had a subjective latitude in applying the concept , then there could be no neutral standard whereby the observer could judge the actions of statesmen and women . |
| 4 | All the blood drained from Folly 's face as she listened , straining for the meaning that eluded her ears , and yet at the same time knowing that there could be no innocent explanation . |
| 5 | Weismann , who was the first to raise so many important questions , suggested that animals senesce because , if they did not , there could be no successive replacement of individuals and hence no evolution . |
| 6 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 7 | There could be no other reason he wanted to question her . |
| 8 | This had to mean , she felt , that she had gone mad because , as she saw it , there could be no other explanation . |
| 9 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 10 | If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism . |
| 11 | There could be no other objective than Teviotdale , in that direction . |
| 12 | Indeed , there could be no other topic of conversation since it had hit them like a bomb-blast on the early-morning news bulletin . |
| 13 | Given the political feebleness of the Regency and the imprecise antiquarianism of the conservative programme , there could be no other result once the constituent issue had been raised . |
| 14 | Once he had obtained a post mortem report identifying the medical cause of death , that was taken to be the sole cause of death : the coroner reached the conclusion that there could be no other cause and so he precluded himself from considering lack of care as a cause . |
| 15 | There could be no other reason . |
| 16 | For one desperate moment she allowed herself to question whether he really had done it , but knew there could be no other answer . |
| 17 | There could be no other explanation . |
| 18 | There could be no other reason , and yet that did not accord with the placidity of his face and his voice , nor did it match with the image Harry was beginning to form of him . |
| 19 | Without writers there could be no new ideas about what cinema could do , and without new ideas there could be no sense of British cinema having a purpose . |
| 20 | Most surprising of all , at a quarterly delegate meeting at the end of 1873 , " it was generally held that there could be no reasonable objection to their [ women 's ] employment to a certain extent ; the main point in dispute being , was it right to put a limit on their number and … to what extent and how to apply the rule " . |
| 21 | As the family had to accept that Ollie was top dog , there could be no equal treatment for the gentler and older Stan — Ollie had to be favoured in all things . |
| 22 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 23 | For as long as the war lasted , she would be a part of the Royal Navy and there could be no remembered yesterdays , no thoughts of tomorrow . |
| 24 | On April 20 two leading opposition groups — the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ( FLAM ) and the United Front for Armed Resistance ( FURAM ) — said in a joint statement that without Taya 's resignation and a general amnesty there could be no genuine democracy . |
| 25 | I believe that Eton now admits women to its sixth form , but nevertheless there could be no serious doubt about which was the man and which was the woman . |
| 26 | There could be no Durkheimian solution to such ills , for Freud 's model of man-in-society included the idea of instinctual gratification and repression , and it is this dimension which is lacking in Durkheim 's thought . |
| 27 | In practice , the result at best would be the confusion which must result when two bodies serving different purposes and interests are equally the ultimate custodians ; and the large probability is that there could be no effective accountability at all . |
| 28 | With peace and the French alliance , there could be no effective barrier to French influence . |
| 29 | They argued that under imperialism there could be no separate ‘ national question ’ . |
| 30 | The shifting patterns of concurrent production meant that there could be no regular correlation between particular skeleton formes [ with their identifiable running titles ] and particular compositors or presses . |