Example sentences of "could be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself wondering how often he thought of his lady friend in America , and feeling sorry for a man who could be such fun , but who spent so much of his time working . |
| 2 | All kinds of circumstances could be such situations . |
| 3 | The idea that there could be such authority without effective power hardly occurred to anyone . |
| 4 | The agony was unimaginable ; she had never thought that there could be such pain in the world . |
| 5 | Then allow the particles to move apart in such a way that the combined wave function does not change even though the distance between the particles may be so great that there is no longer any possibility of mutual interaction : in principle this could be many kilometres . |
| 6 | The mechanical ‘ skin ’ on this well had increased to greater than 100 after its workover and completion , which indicated that although the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day it could be many times more productive . |
| 7 | ‘ I explain that there could be many reasons . |
| 8 | A. There could be many reasons why you are experiencing difficulty in keeping Brown Scats . |
| 9 | ‘ There could be many reasons . |
| 10 | It offers a useful analysis for those who would like to view everything with the ‘ padding ’ removed , and I concede that could be many readers . |
| 11 | It could be many years before the Department of Trade and Industry decided to take action — or not , as in the case of the brewers . |
| 12 | This is a Latin phrase meaning the ‘ date after which ’ , and only means that the artefact could not have been put into the spoil after it had been dumped , but of course , could be many years earlier in date . |
| 13 | They could sense our nervous impatience , and they were determined to remember everything very clearly , for it could be many years before they would again have the opportunity to witness such exotic behaviour . |
| 14 | Last night , Llanelli coach Gareth Jenkins , who is also a Welsh selector , admitted : ‘ It could be that Emyr will not go to Lanzorote . |
| 15 | So that 's going to be very useful and you will get information about all these firms it could be that member has already been advised and he 's willing . |
| 16 | terminal five does n't exist , it could be , that could be the case , research has to be done to see what er , yeah it could be that air , air line capacity and air line will drop as a result of er forward thinking rail scheme and there is evidence from the Rhone to Seine Rider Scheme that 's been undertaken by the French , German and Swiss governments of the a drop in demand for internal flights in those areas and because of the German equipment everything is there . |
| 17 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 18 | It could be that adult literacy is an important programme undertaken in the adult education budget . |
| 19 | It could be that effectiveness could be obtained more efficiently . |
| 20 | It could be that sound transmission from the eardrum along the auditory ossicles to the inner ear would be impaired by worms in the middle ear . |
| 21 | The firm abandoned the idea that it could be all things to all people and decided to focus on identified areas of expertise examples are the legal profession , building societies and the construction industry — and build a reputation for quality of service by becoming pre-eminent in those fields . |
| 22 | Training at Kingsholm could be all ticket in future if the crowds for this week 's visit of England is anything to go by … |
| 23 | ‘ Be Aggressive ’ ( all about swallowing semen ! ) could be all trousers and no brain but instead the lyrics reek of understanding : ‘ Tall and reckless/Ugly seed/Reach down my throat/You filthy bird/That 's all I need . ’ |
| 24 | Even with that level of scrutiny , there could be little hope of containing fraud , which is already a serious drain on the EC 's coffers and on its reputation . |
| 25 | Although no reports on incidental killings of small cetaceans in the new Tasman/South Pacific drift-net fishery were provided by the Taiwanese , Japanese , or Korean governments , there could be little doubt of the damage being done . |
| 26 | On the basis of the most recent evidence , there could be little doubt that Judas Thomas was indeed Jesus 's brother — the brother mentioned in the Gospels as Jude . |
| 27 | There could be little doubt that Richard and his elder brother would give very different answers to these questions . |
| 28 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 29 | Primo de Rivera was still alive and there could be little doubt that he would be opposed to the idea , for , even before the rising , he had warned against the danger of becoming the puppets of the military . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd been warned there could be more bombs . |