Example sentences of "[be] that [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty six years on the chances are that Britain could , once again , be thought of as potential medal prospects . |
| 2 | Estimates are that waves could supply up to one fifth of our electricity demand . |
| 3 | The advantage would be that students could transfer between colleges . |
| 4 | How can it be that Jesus could become sin for you and me ? |
| 5 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 6 | Example 4 still remains a problem , but it may be that books could be suggested as more likely than boots from semantic co-occurrence information , or from frequency of use from a corpus ( books is five times more likely to occur than boots ) , especially if weighted from a count of occurrence in the script recognised so far . |
| 7 | It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion . |
| 8 | What seems more likely is that Basquiat could be the beneficiary of a process operating in the market ( and among some critics ) , where artists who appear able to retain their market value in the next decade are promoted and shown , whereas others considered beyond rehabilitation are ignored . |
| 9 | The tragedy of The Smiths is that Morrissey could only become the victim of the perfection of his style . |
| 10 | One possibility is that England could send their B team . |
| 11 | The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all . |
| 12 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 13 | One wonders why it is that Lewis could see the reality of this divine drama dancing throughout the pages of the scriptures even though many notable theologians could not . |
| 14 | The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to leave the open-market EC that was being built beforehand . |
| 15 | My view is that visitors could increase by 200 or 300 per cent . |
| 16 | if the planning if if the requirements fall much below the demographic requirements , the implication is that migration could be controlled but it may be controlled by a mechanism which I do n't think anybody really wants and that 's by stimulating out migration in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | One factor is that China could become an important supplier of metals to the West . |
| 18 | One conclusion is that Vietnam could have been a proud success , and would have been were it not for , e.g. , the political constraints on the military . |
| 19 | The stark fact is that Nottinghamshire could not afford to do both and generated local controversy by protecting the vertical efficiency of the developmental approach at the expense of fieldwork support for the many . |
| 20 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 21 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |
| 22 | With a string of southern primaries due in March , Clinton remained the overall favourite for the nomination ; the conventional wisdom was that Tsongas could not generate sufficient appeal outside New England , and — given the 1988 fate of Michael Dukakis , a Massachusetts liberal ( also of Greek ethnic origin ) with whom he was frequently compared — would be unelectable as President even if he did secure the nomination . |
| 23 | The point of that story was that Scrooge could afford to be generous . |
| 24 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 25 | The beauty of it was that Campese could cause such a fearful commotion even when he was running on to nothing more appetising than set piece possession , either from the scrum or the line-out . |
| 26 | ‘ I have a lot in common with the people who watch the show , and I think one of the things which has made me popular — even at the start , when I was n't very good , when I was nervous — was that people could really relate to this unsettled black guy on television . |
| 27 | One was that God could not make several worlds . |
| 28 | The fact was that Edward could not . |
| 29 | The general theme was that Walter could muddle through with Mum and Dad , but because they died , he ended up in a horror show . |
| 30 | Another possibility being mentioned was that GM could begin Jaguar production in the US — the company 's biggest market . |