Example sentences of "could [be] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motives of those getting in could be as varied as the role of a newspaper . |
| 2 | This accident alarmed safety scientists in Europe because is showed that even a small break in the cooling circuit , if combined with faults in equipment and human error , could be as serious as a large rupture . |
| 3 | The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first . |
| 4 | In a privatised railway , the staff could be as customer-minded as the cabin crews of British Airways have become , perhaps with encouragement from profit-linked bonuses . |
| 5 | No decision has been taken but the move could be as early as the summer . |
| 6 | It could be as early as the Claudian period , and it has the typical widely spaced ditches of that period . |
| 7 | If the hole is a shallow one , it could be as little as a few inches beneath the surface . |
| 8 | And so Caspar , who though the could be as reserved as the next man , merely said , ‘ Oh , he 's a strange one , Fael-Inis . |
| 9 | Beer was a very important part of monastic life where the daily ration of a monk could be as much as a gallon:of course there was always the caveat If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he can not join in the psalms , he is to be deprived of his supper . |
| 10 | Even so , the Electoral Reform Society estimates that there could be as many as a million missing voters , and Mori made the assumption that the figure was nearer two million . |
| 11 | It has no existing direct links to the tunnel and could not function until a high-speed rail link was built , and that could be as late as the next century . |
| 12 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 13 | I hated sketching those council houses at the foot of Stirling Castle but who knows , in another hundred odd years those houses could be as romantic as the tenements of Scotland Street in Glasgow or the crofthouses in Tiree . |
| 14 | The outcome could be as important as the Synod vote itself . |
| 15 | I believe that John Major , if the erm situation demanded , could be as confrontational as the next person is , but |
| 16 | Prof Richard De La Rue , of the university 's department of electronics and electrical engineering , explained yesterday that by the end of the century overseas telephone calls could be as routine as a local call ; there would be more international television channels into living rooms ; and the rapid world of modern business could become even faster . |
| 17 | Shreeves said : ‘ Gary could be as bright as a button on Monday , but I felt we had to let Graham Taylor know . ’ |
| 18 | This is the background to the drought of 1982 , which the government says could be as bad as the one 10 years before . |
| 19 | If the pupil in the drama lesson is conscious of using drama to help ‘ the real me to get out ’ then this could be as limiting as the most inflexible authoritarian teaching . |