Example sentences of "[ex0] could [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could also be a brief introduction on which direction to do the route ; and the eventual booklet should include information on how to get back ( ? by public transport ) to the starting point — this can , I imagine , be supplied by the Council . |
| 2 | There could also be a Commercial Court of Appeal with its own , higher paid , judges . |
| 3 | The rival factions involved were sometimes family groups whose hostility was longstanding , but there could also be a local clerical faction : archdeacons tended to have high hopes of gaining the episcopate and could mobilize a body of support . |
| 4 | Now would seem to be a good time to buy PCs , but there could well be a certain amount of hassle before your new wonder computer is up and running properly . |
| 5 | There could well be a major collapse in the administration of local government funding . |
| 6 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 7 | There could hardly be a better instance of the primacy of the written word compared with the spoken , of knowledge compared with skill . |
| 8 | There could hardly be a better time to move into insurance auditing . |
| 9 | There could hardly be a better use of the building and its tradition as a ‘ laboratory of the mind ’ . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , there could hardly be a clear-cut foreign policy . |
| 11 | There could hardly be a stronger contrast between this and the picture RIGHT which shows a Kirlian photograph of a healthy person 's fingertip . |
| 12 | There could then be a real opportunity to give each one an exclusive angle . |
| 13 | A special unit set up to track down the missing money has now traced around three hundred million pounds — but there could still be a long legal battle to get some of it returned . |
| 14 | However , as we show below , there could sometimes be a significant gap between intention and outcome . |
| 15 | Certainly the rivalries within the Merovingian family ensured that there could never been a simple pattern of succession |
| 16 | Pareto and Mosca ransacked history for multiple examples of this ‘ natural ’ cycle in operation , claiming that the accumulated weight of evidence refuted Marxist claims that there could ever be a classless society and liberals ' optimism that power could ever be meaningfully dispersed under popular control by establishing representative government . |
| 17 | It was questioned whether there could ever be a single dominant ideology . |