Example sentences of "could [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 2 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 3 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 4 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 5 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 6 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 7 | It could only be because they had something to hide . |
| 8 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |
| 9 | If she felt hurt at the realisation that his affectionate gestures had been no more than a front — well , it could only be because her ego was wounded . |
| 10 | We could n't believe he could not be but the heart abnormalities were all there . ’ |
| 11 | It was not unlike the feeling she experienced when men looked at her and wanted her though she knew it could not be that for there was nothing sexual between her and Gary and never would be . |
| 12 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |
| 13 | This could not be as our drug supplies were not coming through so well . |
| 14 | It could just be that some of us get married to creatures that fit that description , so perhaps there 's a mysterious kind of genetic memory involved here . |
| 15 | Furthermore , it could just be that his union might contain diverse political factions within it which , thanks to years of forced and unenforced apartheid , have come to permeate every fabric of society and may well have forced SARU into an on-going powerplay with SARB . |
| 16 | It could just be that you are the indirect cause of the complaint and the action you take has a consequential impact on the customer . |
| 17 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 18 | It could just be that you 're the person in your family who knows what 's on all those video tapes that nobody 's labelled up . |
| 19 | Now it could possibly be that , he was already married , and would want the children from that marriage to receive all the land that he had , rather than it being spread out with with more children that Ruth was gon na have . |
| 20 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 21 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 22 | It could also be that Widnes 's match with Barrow last Sunday will be deducted from his current eight-match suspension . |
| 23 | It could also be that there is a general deficiency of demand for labour throughout the economy , in which case the involuntarily unemployed workers will face fierce competition for the jobs that do become available . |
| 24 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 25 | It could also be that those who remain to resume operations in London are lying low because of the fear of target surveillance by increased security service activity and resources . |
| 26 | It could also be because there was also a noticeable increase in the incidence of liver cirrhosis discharges during this period and the most liver cirrhosis cases are also caused by alcohol abuse in Finland . |
| 27 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |
| 28 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 29 | In reality this may not be the case : the explanation could simply be that the camera position for the second shot has been shifted over to the other side of the path . |
| 30 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |