Example sentences of "could [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could be up Henry 's street . |
| 2 | These could be where groundwater is pumped out for clean-up , or even at the US 's notorious Superfund waste sites . |
| 3 | So it , it could be just debts . |
| 4 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 5 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 6 | If only Fen could be both friend and lover to her . |
| 7 | What is important about Griffith , however , is that his demonstration that feature films could be both art and social treatise was not inspired by any narrow or specific intellectual or doctrinal position . |
| 8 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 9 | I do n't want to over-hype it , but it would be equally wrong to underestimate what Tencel might be , which is the beginning of a new industry that could be both material to Courtaulds and change the world fibre industry completely . |
| 10 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
| 11 | This could be why Jack Gibbons , the president 's science adviser , recently sent a letter to Mr Goldin insisting that the Russians should not be the focus of the redesign effort . |
| 12 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 13 | He retained his northern direct honesty of judgement , was absolutely without pretence and intolerant of humbug ; he could be devastatingly acid in deprecating affectation in others , yet was , in so many ways , unfailingly and practically kind . |
| 14 | The Welsh Office is providing £2.7m of extra cash for the whole of Wales this year to help reduce waiting lists , and although yet to be finalised , Clwyd 's share could be around £400,000 , says health authority treasurer , Nigel Morris . |
| 15 | Argentina 's crop could be around 10m tonnes . |
| 16 | This could merely be clustering , it could be merely chance . |
| 17 | of the defence budget and that no other known system could be so cost effective but still provide the same degree of security ? |
| 18 | Or perhaps they do , for the beast does swerve aside , though this could be only chance . |
| 19 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said today that his mainstream Fatah faction approved a self-rule deal with Israel and mutual recognition could be only days away . |
| 20 | I wish it could be always summer and autumn , with you always loving me ! ’ |
| 21 | I could be quite sort of interesting . |