Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be long-term spouse abuse , or equally an abusive parent/child situation which resulted in a shift of power with the child becoming the carer . |
| 2 | Waddle , Beardsley and Rush , however , could be long-term targets for manager Kevin Keegan providing Newcastle avoid relegation . |
| 3 | Then come the foreign exchange needs of net exporters , followed by the needs of enterprises that could be net exporters if they were not obliged to give priority to the home market . |
| 4 | They could be copper wires . |
| 5 | Indeed , there could be peaceful co-existence between different political systems . |
| 6 | The organisation is divided into three ( these could be geographical divisions — say 3 shops , or functional divisions , which could be production , accounts and sales — or product based divisions ) . |
| 7 | They could be steel workers . |
| 8 | They could be successful entrepreneurs who have retired in their fifties , or idle sybarites with the good fortune of inheritance . |
| 9 | Among the coats in the bedroom was a leather bomber jacket which did look as though it could be genuine World War Two . |
| 10 | What could be pristine melodies are choked by sledgehammer rhythm guitaring . |
| 11 | L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft . |
| 12 | The numerous tension members could be simple piano wires . |
| 13 | Other important variables of this response could be individual factors ( for example , age and the HLA haplotype ) , the type of gluten ingested and the length of the exposure to gluten . |
| 14 | Woolf J , in Cottage Holiday Associates Ltd v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1983 ] QB 735 , accepted that time-share arrangements could be legal leases . |
| 15 | There could be legal problems for you , and problems of security . " |
| 16 | In this definition u 1 and u 2 are quite general quantities ; but as examples , they could be simultaneous values of the same component of the velocity at two different points , or two different components of the velocity at a single point . |
| 17 | They could be serial killers , joyriders , arsonists or hitmen . |
| 18 | Well it could be sore ribs from rowing . |
| 19 | The newly-discovered flashes could be weak fluctuations in this object . |
| 20 | Late in 1903 , Dunlop asked Kilpatrick to sell him his half-share in the Baron so that he , Dunlop , could be sole owner . |
| 21 | The British National Party candidate said there could be violent clashes between fascists and left-wing supporters when he bids to unseat local Tory MP and schools minister Michael Fallon . |
| 22 | Now that he had premises that could be used day and night , he made sure his talents and availability were known . |
| 23 | The native tribal organizations were even retained , since they could be used tor yasak collection . |
| 24 | There could be grand pianos , campers , |
| 25 | Waldegrave 's allotted question times at Westminster could be embarrassing occasions : any queries of substance will have to be referred to the ministries that matter . |
| 26 | You might have to go outside the family , it could be next-door neighbours , or friends from work or social club or wherever . |
| 27 | The only motive for killing Marius Steen could be sheer bloody-mindedness on somebody 's part — a desire to make things really difficult for Nigel . |
| 28 | At least that 's what they told me , it could be sheer bull . |
| 29 | It could fatten on coarser feed than the Durham and was early maturing for beef , and the oxen could be good draught workers as well as slaughter beasts , though the cows were not good milkers . |
| 30 | The teacher in charge claimed that there were at least nine children who ‘ linguistically could be good partials ’ but not one was attaining anything like his or her true linguistic potential . |