Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) For the purposes of arts 5 and 7 ( see above ) : ( a ) the value of an action for a sum of money , whether specified or not , is the amount which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover ; ( b ) an action for specified relief other than a sum of money : ( i ) has a value equal to the amount of money which the plaintiff or applicant could reasonably state to be the financial worth of the claim to him , or ( ii ) where there is no such amount , has no quantifiable value . |
| 2 | But a forgery could always claim to be written by Moses in the same terms as an authentic Mosaic document . |
| 3 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 4 | If challenged in court , Nimslo 's patent coverage could well prove to be cosmetic . |
| 5 | That the end of communism could also prove to be the end of the Catholic church 's unquestioned moral authority in Poland was the last thing the church hierarchy expected when the Solidarity leader , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , himself a long-time Catholic activist , became the first non-communist prime minister in 1989 . |
| 6 | But what I have tried to show is that a theist could actually claim to be abiding by the Verification Principle when making statements about God . |
| 7 | The hidden agenda could easily appear to be that " our drama is the least important thing in the school " . |
| 8 | The holder of three scientific degrees — from Oxford , UCLA and MIT , all summa cum laude — in electrical engineering and electronics , Denholm was as close to being an electronics wizard as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 9 | He was as certain of his audience as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 10 | Certainly no list could ever claim to be exhaustive and complete . |
| 11 | Similarly , the girls in the scheme could hardly fail to be aware of eyes on them , and of their success in mathematics being of importance to significant others . |
| 12 | Their squad could just prove to be too big , ie Ferguson may not know who to pick . |