Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident took place at around 4.30 on Thursday afternoon , and it is thought that one of the men could be middle aged and the other younger . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Why should we come to the Chamber to be bored rigid when we could be bored rigid in the comparative comfort of our own offices ? |
| 4 | He could be content sitting cross-legged , weeding a flower bed , or repairing a broken chair . |
| 5 | Life in a small village could be deadly dull , and Henry had been absolutely charming when he chose to be . |
| 6 | They would report to the Home Secretary and could be former armed forces officers , diplomats , academics , or even trade union officials . |
| 7 | Could be drunken driving , manslaughter , who knows ? |
| 8 | Oh it could be stormy right enough but well the steamer might call at Rousay at that time and they would land the goods in Rousay the perishables for Wyre and when the weather abated we would get it from there . |
| 9 | And there could be one outstanding person of the year telephone sales which God knows I would n't wan na pick that . |
| 10 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 11 | There could be two good reasons for buying a new car ahead of your retirement . |
| 12 | There could be two distinct ways of thinking about the teacher 's role in promoting collaboration : |
| 13 | ‘ Look at us — we could be two eighteenth-century lovers . ’ |
| 14 | I was out of order , but the Claudia Adams who enticed Garry away from his wife and the girl I am beginning to know could be two different people . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What she expects and what she gets could be two different things that are miles apart . ’ |
| 16 | It 's hard to believe such great fishing could be such good value for money until you try it yourself . |
| 17 | Dauntless Javelot had never imagined a woman could be such abrasive company . |
| 18 | There could be many possible reasons why the surgeon refuses to operate . |
| 19 | There could be many glorious months in front of us before that time comes . ’ |
| 20 | However , different people might without illogicality be prepared to universalise quite different considerations , so that there could be alternative moral views , each equally a moral view , even if some of them were , from our point of view , immoral . |
| 21 | SPENDING Christmas zapping aliens or helping Sonic the Hedgehog to dodge graphic nasties might sound mindless to parents — but it could be great mental exercise for thousands of computer game-crazy youngsters . |
| 22 | There could be real economic costs involved in nationalisation . |
| 23 | Indeed , the two diagrams illustrating the role of analytical chemistry in society deserve wide exposure and could be useful compulsory reading the bureaucracies where there is a danger of passing legislation that runs ahead of analytical competence . |
| 24 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 25 | And if those glances at me meant what they looked like , it could be plain old-fashioned sex . |
| 26 | To suggest , as do other countries in the European Community , and the Commission itself , that there could be maximum daily doses of individual tablets prescribed , is not incompatible with saying that the products will continue to be freely available to all those who wish to use them . |
| 27 | Vitamin D could be another chemopreventative agent because of its ability to switch cellular activity ( in various cancer cell lines ) from proliferation to differentiation . |
| 28 | It could be another blind alley . ’ |
| 29 | To my mind , Bassetja could be another Boggy Peak who gave Maxwell victory in the Ulster Cesarewitch back in 1986 . |
| 30 | This could be another potential target in any strategy designed to influence the energy mix in favour of coal . |