Example sentences of "of [adj] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new proposals , currently out for consultation , the consequences of that could be extremely serious . |
| 2 | The implications of that could be alarming . |
| 3 | Well some of that could be the tablets you 're on . |
| 4 | 45 kilos of plastic Much of that could be saved for other uses and not simply destroyed . |
| 5 | The implication of that could be one of two ways . |
| 6 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 7 | Yeah , but as I say a lot of that could be Doctor Spock 's erm |
| 8 | Membership for the purposes of the Act of 1986 could be relevant only if that of itself conferred some right of appeal which has been denied to Winchester . |
| 9 | The Gorbals of old could be compared with parts of Stepney and Whitechapel , or the Bowery and Bronx of New York City . |
| 10 | The first four months of 1993 could be a tricky time for family relationships and an acrimonious parting of the ways can not be ruled out — even if it is just a temporary estrangement . |
| 11 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
| 12 | The merit of this could be gauged from an observation by a local challenger , Steve Webster , who scored a fine 73 for a 117 overnight total . |
| 13 | An echo of this could be seen in the fascination expressed by many middle-class men with the physical features of working-class women and in the concurrent attempts at sexual colonisation embodied in prostitution of working-class girls . |
| 14 | Evidence of this could be seen week after week from 1989 onwards . |
| 15 | An example of this could be entity occurrences of persons who are female , where they relate to : |
| 16 | Another reflection of this could be the twelfth-century belief in the abbey of Ely , where Brihtnoth was buried , that he had been earl of Northumbria . |
| 17 | Part of this could be due to people 's increased awareness of the importance of reporting all diarrhoea and sickness symptoms to their doctors , said the report , due before the works and health committee on Monday . |
| 18 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 19 | The NEDC Committee suggests that one of these could be transplanted to October — but why not move them further apart , and add another in the autumn ? |
| 20 | None of these could be classified strictly as proletarians , even by the loose and ideologically biased definitions of the early Soviet period . |
| 21 | In retrospect it seems extraordinary that some of these could be prescribed in the first place . |
| 22 | Any of these could be used as rollers but only the circle has a constant centre , permitting a hub . |
| 23 | Corrosion of these could be serious , said Dr Swift . |
| 24 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 25 | Most people would agree that the first of these could be dispensed with without much regret or difficulty , but the others do seem to call for some sort of ceremony . |
| 26 | Copies of these could be used by landing craft flotillas and at least one survey showed an intended landing point for trucks was backed by impassable cliffs — shades of Rhodes . |
| 27 | None of these could be regarded as solutions in themselves , but taken together , and in combination with other measures outlined in the new deal , they can make a substantial improvement . |
| 28 | It is possible that editing could be speeded up if some of these could be carried out by a facility that operated automatically , unless told not to . |
| 29 | Neither of these could be assumed merely from the conclusion of the treaty . |
| 30 | However , some of these could be explained by the fact that the temporary workers were also part-timers ( who were , in any case , excluded from particular benefits ) , or that certain benefits were available only to workers with a minimum service record . |