Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as we have suggested , the working woman 's goal was one of maintaining and protecting her family , abortion could be one means of attaining that end . |
| 2 | If tax breaks are taken into account , as well as the estimated £5 million value of neighbouring football ground Craven Cottage , also owned by SB , the striking price for a deal could be nearer £12 million . |
| 3 | Within the brain it is usually only 1 mm or less , but the cell bodies of the neurons that bring information to the brain from the skin lie close to the spinal cord , so in a whale or dinosaur the dendrites could be 10,000 mm long , and this also applies to the axons of the motor fibres , which carry commands from the spinal cord telling the muscles to contract . |
| 4 | but there could be more people . |
| 5 | In the USA there could be twice that density , and in the tropics ( even taking night-time into account ) there could be three people per square metre ! |
| 6 | The IDA 's Mr Linehan said the men said they were members of the RRA and that there could be 300 people blocking the site within two minutes . |
| 7 | It could be high-tech folk art . |
| 8 | They could be big fish , but their heartfelt politics should mean they will not become part of the corporate rock machine . |
| 9 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |