Example sentences of "could be [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could be here all night rapping about the finer points of mediumship . |
| 2 | Maybe it could be here any minute . |
| 3 | Pakistan should be even better as a five-day team than they proved they could be over 50 overs . |
| 4 | What you could have done say was this one here that 's marked E does n't have to be all of those who supported Everton , it could be just that bit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It could be just another trap and what with Mr Bishop and Gazzer , there had been too many of those lately . |
| 7 | There are still 45,000 subscriptions outstanding and since the cut off is now 31 March , there could be even more casualties this year ( see p 119 ) . |
| 8 | Could be alternatively older ones or something like that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some will suppose that 18th-century riots could be rather jolly affairs , playful English affrays of the sort cheerfully satirised by Hogarth or Rowlandson . |
| 11 | The same act could be both this form of manslaughter and reckless manslaughter . |
| 12 | He gave his opinion that no one man could be effectively Prime Minister , leader of the House of Commons , and chairman of the War Committee . |
| 13 | Now Professor Lock referred to allocations and I think that 's probably and the front of his mind er having regard to his own comments , but I I would put it more widely as just erm exceptions which could be either individual allocations or indeed erm policies of of a local plan . |
| 14 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 15 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 16 | Paving is a combination of random rectangular slabs , which could be either precast concrete or a more expensive natural stone and this has been teamed with brick , helping to soften the overall surface and also define the various planted areas . |
| 17 | There could be yet another cut in interest rates and positive help to home-buyers to get the vital housing market moving . |
| 18 | The City view is that the fall in corporate earnings has stopped and that next year 's increase could be around 15 p.c . |
| 19 | Presenting the 1990 report of the federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( BfV ) on Aug. 15 , 1991 , Schäuble said that there could be around 15,000 neo-Nazis in eastern Germany . |
| 20 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 21 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 22 | I would be very grateful if the departure could be as low key |
| 23 | and if you have n't got it you could be there all day on the exam , urgh urgh , and also you 're thinking I 'll put it this way up , that one over that |
| 24 | It could be so next time . |
| 25 | It could be only eight years before he becomes King William V. But unlike his father , he will be well equipped for another role — that of partner and parent . |
| 26 | New York could be only 26 miles away |
| 27 | New York could be only 26 miles away |
| 28 | But there could be only one winner , in 1985 as in 1919 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It occurred to her far too late that in a contest between fire and ice there could be only one victor . |