Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 2 | I knew there could only be one person . ’ |
| 3 | However , an election was fought , and there could only be one winner . |
| 4 | ‘ There could only be one winner , and that would be The Doc , ’ Nichol has said . |
| 5 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 6 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 7 | ‘ I wept on the night the sidh were last seen at Tara , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ for I knew that they could only sing for one of you , and that there could only be one ruler . |
| 8 | But he was expecting a decision now , and with Angel firmly in mind there could only be one answer . |
| 9 | It could only be one source — only one source had his number here . |
| 10 | With a nose like this it could only be one plane . |
| 11 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 12 | There could only be one reason why Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , was refusing to accept binding arbitration in the dispute . |
| 13 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 14 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 15 | There could only be one end to these arguments which were so familiar to him . |
| 16 | There are three main highland regions ( Figure 4.5 ) : Ishtar Terra , which is a plateau ; Aphrodite Terra , which is rougher , and bears wide linear depressions a few kilometres deep ; and Beta Regio , which could possibly be two shield volcanoes . |
| 17 | A good set of parts could well be ten times that . |
| 18 | If the United Nations Convention comes into force there could potentially be two seabed conventional regimes with parties to one constituting third parties to the other . |
| 19 | The Gaullist RPR , which has played the leading historical role in helping German postwar political recovery — while opposing any military revival — has given the most unequivocal welcome to the idea that Germany could again be one nation . |