Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 2 | Those who remained loyal could expect to be generously rewarded , in position if not always in money . |
| 3 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 4 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 5 | And then the baby , and then not the baby , but there was an us I could feel to be there every day when I woke up . |
| 6 | The synods regularly meeting in Rome since Vatican II could claim to be more representative of the Church than the majority of Councils . |
| 7 | This is admittedly an extreme case since Germany has passed from the , in theory , most complete pan-German political unity under Hitler to a situation where at least two states coexisted which could claim to be all or part of the German nation . |
| 8 | Or I could decide to be supremely inconsiderate and have my baby at home . |
| 9 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 10 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 11 | You 've heard of love on the rebound , and falling for Fen could prove to be even more disastrous . |
| 12 | Whatever the drawbacks of genetically engineered organisms ultimately prove to be , and as yet there is very little evidence available , there are a number of possibilities that , at least in theory , could prove to be environmentally beneficial . |
| 13 | However , the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 1 reported that some Taiwanese economists believed that the plan " could prove to be only a temporary crutch that will fail if the worldwide economic slump continues " . |
| 14 | A large C. bifasciatum or C. maculicauda would also look good , but could prove to be more boisterous . |
| 15 | To begin with I found the subject somewhat tedious , but as the weeks passed I became fascinated by how meticulously recording each transaction could prove to be so beneficial even to our little business . |
| 16 | They were held in the open , before a portable altar , and three bishops were present , in gold and crimson and purple and white , as well as all the churchmen who could contrive to be there , and several thousand people from Fife and Angus and Lennox and Strathearn and even further away . |
| 17 | This assumed that women could afford to be economically dependent , which was rarely the case , and offered an individualist solution to what were complex environmental , social and economic problems . |
| 18 | Working with an ensemble he had built in a hall whose construction he had supervised , he could afford to be as relaxed as he wished , and also as demanding . |
| 19 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 20 | ‘ You could get to be very popular back in the city-states , Doc . ’ |
| 21 | Mark could ill-afford to be away from his office with the presentation to Cocello looming large on the horizon , but the next day he was on his way to Dublin . |