Example sentences of "could be [adv] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your selection to receive this invitation , and the allocation , exclusively to you , of seven numbers that you alone can enter in the draw , means that you could be just one step away from winning the first prize in this £40,000 draw — which would give you the choice that I mentioned between a lump sum and an income for life . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the present contraction could be simply one phase of a long , slow pulsation which might have a cycle time of hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 3 | But there could be only one winner , in 1985 as in 1919 . |
| 4 | DAVID MELLOR and Eldorado were in the running but the judges agreed there could be only one Turkey of the Year — the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 5 | It occurred to her far too late that in a contest between fire and ice there could be only one victor . |
| 6 | The issue was clearcut , and there could be only one response to a Judgement of God . |
| 7 | After the battles of Midway , El Alamein and Stalingrad it was apparent that , to paraphrase Churchill , the ring was closing round the Axis and there could be only one outcome . |
| 8 | The noise they were making indicated that no teacher was present , and there could be only one explanation for his absence now . |
| 9 | There could be only one consequence as the clothier distanced itself from its customers . |
| 10 | This was a question to which , for a patriotic Conservative leader , there could be only one answer . |
| 11 | All of a sudden I was awoken by the sound of a buzzer to my right going faster and faster and bearing in mind Rick was to my left it could be only one thing , the cat rod was away ! |
| 12 | This time there could be only one conclusion . |