Example sentences of "could be [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sellers were therefore able to recover that item ( or , actually its value ) on the grounds that they had already puported to terminate the contract with the buyers ; however , it is not difficult to imagine cases where a difference of one day could be crucial and defeat the sellers ' claim . |
| 2 | ‘ You could be in this coffin , your mother could be heartbroken and devastated like Damien 's mother at this time . |
| 3 | Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided . |
| 4 | He left unspoken the fact that he hoped the friendship between himself and Diana could be renewed and developed upon his return . |
| 5 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 6 | Even companies like M&S have to do it from time : warn customers that something they 've bought could be dangerous and needs to be returned , either for repairing or a cash refund . |
| 7 | A SCIENTIFIC laser unit has been stolen from Telford College in Edinburgh and police have given warning the equipment could be dangerous if mishandled . |
| 8 | Alpha particles , the strongest of the three , would be stopped by a barrier of paper , but could be dangerous if ingested in food or dust . |
| 9 | His act had been devised , he said again , so that people could be shocked and upset . |
| 10 | Remember that if you sell one of these instruments before maturity , then changes in interest rates will almost certainly mean that its capital value has altered and you will get a gain or loss , which could be substantial and exceed the interest earned . |
| 11 | Despite the quality of the logic , such theories are , in my view , based upon the flawed assumption that it would always be possible to deter the enemy by the controlled use of nuclear weapons of increasing size and on the assumption that nuclear war fighting could be discrete and managed . |
| 12 | St Jude 's Square lay before her , level and familiar , flanked by its old taverns and the graceful iron railings of St Jude 's churchyard where Luke still often waited for her ; the square crowded and ebullient today with the stalls for the Friday market , with traders and dealers and pedlars of fancy braids and buttons , fans , feathers , bright little birds in cages , beads , sequins , second-hand dresses that could be unpicked and made over , second-hand bonnets that could be remodelled , old belts that sometimes had decent buckles , sugar sticks the colour of rubies and emeralds that would be a treat for Liam . |
| 13 | Although the present investigation did not reveal more platelet activating factor in colonic mucosa in patients with Crohn 's disease in remission than in controls , this hypothesis could be possible but needs further investigations . |
| 14 | Could be patient-centred or concerning professional issues . |
| 15 | No one who had stared into the chaos of the warp , no one whose living was to do so , could be unsophisticated and survive . |
| 16 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman , who refused to sign the agreement , returned to Zagreb where he warned that " all-out war " could be imminent and convened a crisis session of the war cabinet . |
| 17 | He was n't the only one who could be stubborn and unbending , she decided fiercely . |
| 18 | Or you could be sensible and stop trying to squeeze the last drop of current from the transformer ! |
| 19 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
| 20 | Each day 's enquiries could be different and based on different parts of the database . |
| 21 | You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ? |
| 22 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 23 | In the late nineteenth century the Jersey colours included tawny red , yellow , pale fawn , lemon fawn , smoky fawn , grey fawn , silver to frosty grey , brown , dun or black and these could be whole-coloured or broken by separate patches of white , large or small . |
| 24 | This transcending of the differences of individual gifts in a corporate wholeness in which the love of God could be manifest and known was constantly enacted in the ritual of the Mass at the centre of parish worship . |
| 25 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 26 | You could be lucky and knit a perfect garment in the first yarn that comes to hand but you could also be badly disappointed . |