Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could rather be the context itself that is determining the nature of the exchanges . |
| 2 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 3 | He was right , she thought , gazing into the distance , there were lights everywhere , some from passing ships and others which could only be the shoreline . |
| 4 | I could only be the Shangri-La Singapore . |
| 5 | The ‘ party ’ of the future could only be the mass of the labouring population , for as he wrote in 1950 , in his self- proclaimed masterpiece : ‘ State Capitalism and World Revolution . ’ |
| 6 | It could only be the doctor — and the breakthrough came . |
| 7 | Ninety may be a good age but who knows for the horse the IRA could n't kill this could only be the start of the search for pastures new . |
| 8 | It could only be the hand of a man , and for a moment she stood quite still , hesitating to pick it up , filled with a gloomy presentiment . |
| 9 | By Gascon custom , observed in 1254 by Henry III and in 1306 by Edward I , this could only be the king-duke 's eldest son . |
| 10 | The remaining highlands bear fewer craters and this could largely be the result of partial burial by ejecta from basin-forming impacts , because these regions border such basins or the subsequent maria . |
| 11 | And hopes are high that the Mersey could soon be the scene of a world championship powerboat event . |
| 12 | And hopes are high that the river could soon be the venue for a powerboat world championship event . |
| 13 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 14 | There would probably be delayed TV rights in America , and the fight could just be the making of pay-as-you-view in Britain . |
| 15 | CITY UNDER SIEGE London has long been the centre of European finance , but the slide in business now could just be the start of a lasting loss of market share . |
| 16 | However , and this could easily be the case in the larger surveying organisation , it may not be in the interests of either effective management or particular individuals to maintain this full-scale participation of all members . |
| 17 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 18 | Front-drive , a 2.2-litre 16-valve in-line four developing an impressive 225bhp , four-wheel disc brakes with an optional anti-lock device and compact dimensions by usual US standards could easily be the routine outline for a French , Swedish , perhaps even German four-door performance saloon . |
| 19 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 20 | I kept hearing these small explosions and I wondered what could possibly be the cause . |
| 21 | Nobody else could possibly be the target . |
| 22 | Surely the fact of seeing each other every day at work could hardly be the answer ? |
| 23 | Of course McDunn points out that I could still be the murderer ; this could all be a story I 've made up . |
| 24 | The annual Education and Library Resources Exhibitions could also be the occasion for direct selling , with an immediate purchase facility . |
| 25 | But it could also be the case that all three forms ( or perhaps two of them ) were current in the underlying dialect of the scribe ( or of the author ) , or — more properly — of the speech community to which he belonged . |
| 26 | It could also be the year in which either shadow home secretary Tony Blair or shadow trade and industry secretary Robin Cook emerge as Labour 's leader-in-waiting . |
| 27 | This could also be the motive behind the Creole refusals of requests which were discussed earlier . |
| 28 | Each zone was characterized by particular landscape-forming processes and by relief features and so could also be the basis for understanding past landscape development . |
| 29 | Again , American experience suggests that field staff , like the police , could also be the target for gifts or bribes which polluters may make . |
| 30 | The removal of the Barre regime may be the end of a tyranny ; it could also be the begining of a tribal war the horrors of which we have so far only glimpsed . |