Example sentences of "[ex0] could [adv] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There could also be a price explosion leading to a collapse of the UK market which is currently the most important . |
2 | There could also be a pot of money in a change for the manufacturers . |
3 | If the merchandise is valuable and indeed even if it is not , there could also be a problem of pilferage . |
4 | He is even daring enough to suggest that there could well be a mainframe revival in the next 18 months — depending on vendors ' willingness to slash prices and beef up the competition within the market . |
5 | There could well be a problem of interference amongst all these users . |
6 | Four is a much more logical number and if the hobby is to be taken very seriously , with regular work for the ferrets available , there could well be a need for six . |
7 | If anything should happen to him , there could well be a collapse in Indo-China and it was for this reason that Collins recommended that the US should continue to extend military and economic aid ‘ in order to check the spread of communism in South-East Asia ’ — but only as long as de Lattre was in Indo-China . |
8 | When eventually interviewed regarding the suspected offence there could well be a denial and whilst not essential , the prosecution case would be much stronger if corroboration is available regarding the driver 's identity . |
9 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
10 | There could however be a tribunal which had jurisdiction to determine whether the preliminary state of facts existed ; here it would be for the inferior tribunal to decide upon all the facts . |
11 | The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other . |
12 | This is very much in line with hypotheses d ) and e ) , outlined above , and means that if a proper ban is reconfirmed , there could suddenly be a lot more bans where this one ( nearly ) came from . |
13 | Well , there could still be a case for investment in such an enterprise if it were shown that the lack of profitability was the result of higher costs than competitors stemming from locational disadvantages . |
14 | In particular it made certain that there could never be a repetition of the evictions that had originally brought the crofts into being . |
15 | There is a consideration on one side , and it is said the consideration on the other is the agreement itself : if that were so there could never be a nudum pactum . |
16 | Is there a chance if it changes so rapidly , that there could never be a vaccine for the whole strain , for the whole H I V virus . |
17 | There could never be a future with Travis . |
18 | The Committee acknowledges that as a result of its proposal that only threats of immediate harm should suffice for rape , ‘ some prosecutions will be brought under section 2 in circumstances where there could now be a prosecution for rape . ’ |