Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions could be asked about the so-called Maidenhead factor , which relates to the apparently higher level of affluence of the population that is likely to be affected by a flood than elsewhere in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Similar comments could be made about the national Sunday press . |
| 3 | Similar remarks could be made about the abstract ballets by Balanchine , MacMillan and others . |
| 4 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 5 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 6 | A vast amount of information could be collected about the instinctive and emotional development of the normal child and its relation to his intellectual growth and interests ’ . |
| 7 | Since a whole book could be written about the professional work of each of these innovators , there is a danger that in the process of selection I shall distort or over-simplify . |