Example sentences of "it could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |
| 2 | But er I suppose in a lot of senses it could been worse . |
| 3 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 4 | It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes . |
| 5 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 6 | The motto refers to a dynastic permanence ; but it could be stolen for this novel , where a ‘ now and always ’ is on show . |
| 7 | And it could be said that not only is it about imitation — it is also , as are other tours de force , itself an imitation of something . |
| 8 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
| 9 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 10 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 11 | The locale is described as a university in the north of England , it could be anywhere from Nottingham to Newcastle , but seems more likely to be Lancashire or Merseyside . |
| 12 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 13 | It could be argued that the myths of Ulster protestantism and the institution of the Orange order take the place of the more centralized clerical organization of Roman catholicism in providing some element of overall religious unity among protestant loyalists . |
| 14 | Any further attempt to violate the principle of statehood by the new Northern-led leadership , it could be presumed , is unlikely to succeed — indeed , in certain circumstances could result in a reduction of support for their Northern campaigns . |
| 15 | It could be argued that such a strategy was in any case unnecessary . |
| 16 | Finally , while it could be argued that Greeley and Rossi tell us something of catholic versus state schooling in the US , they have nothing to tell us about catholic versus Christian , multi-denominational schools , which is what most of the argument in Ireland is about . |
| 17 | ‘ Essentially it 's an electronic brochure , but it could be used to promote a branded product , such as a hotel consortium or Agatha Christie weekends . |
| 18 | That Agatha Christie 's reading was wide-ranging can not now be denied , but , even so , the source of one of Hercule Poirot 's favourite ploys — almost , it could be said , his trademark , the gathering together of the suspects at the climax of one of his investigations — is surprising . |
| 19 | There are so many people who come and go in a place like this , it could be anyone . ’ |
| 20 | It could be anticipated that the college would have seen the creation of a continuous stream of books and papers generated by the rich source of material which pours through its gates , but this has hardly been the case . |
| 21 | It could be very pleasant . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Though you look like it could be a wake . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But it could be ? ’ |
| 24 | Therefore it could be classified as a special project — one for which there was constant demand . |
| 25 | Among the coats in the bedroom was a leather bomber jacket which did look as though it could be genuine World War Two . |
| 26 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 27 | And she capitalized on this , she saw where it could be to her advantage to be perceived as a celluloid creation . |
| 28 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 29 | ‘ It could be two hundred shots , if necessary . |
| 30 | It could be for a night , or a day , or longer — for example , a week or two weeks . |