Example sentences of "[indef pn] could be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It accepted that someone could be guilty even though unaware of the falsity of the description and even though the description was applied to the goods by another person . |
| 2 | well yes and therefore they wanted the appeal procedure , erm to make it fair I 'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that , term , to eradicate the possibility that someone could be able to exclude it from the market unjustifiably |
| 3 | At first , nobody could be sure how many there might be . |
| 4 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody could be better company than you , Mr O'Hara . ’ |
| 6 | Whether this was , as the newsroom quipped , because it had dawned on her she had nothing to do there or whether it was , as the police believed , because she had lost her argument with Wickham , nobody could be certain . |
| 7 | It seems to be a feature almost peculiar to this country , and nothing could be healthier for scholarship . |
| 8 | And for domestic consumption , nothing could be better than such external " provocation " . |
| 9 | Once she had , after she had listened with a gentle face to Jack 's admission , his ultimatum , that Alison was different , Alison was ‘ for keeps ’ , believed that nothing could be worse , that she had now experienced the worst . |
| 10 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 11 | Watched by her baffled cat , Mildred squeezed through the gap and hopped away down the corridor , convinced that nothing could be worse than just sitting helplessly in her room . |
| 12 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 13 | After all , nothing could be worse than the war-torn , economically deprived , famine stricken homelands which they left behind . |
| 14 | " I shall also give a warning to those present , to the effect that , in my view , nothing could be worse for the treatment of cholera than the warm baths , mustard-plasters and compresses recommended by Dr Dunstaple , which can only further reduce the water content of the blood No medicine could be more dangerous in cholera collapse than opium , and calomel in the form of a pill is utterly useless . " |
| 15 | In any event , he consoled himself , nothing could be worse for Katherine than the situation that had developed at home . |
| 16 | ‘ Much worse , ’ he said wisely , but Cathbad said that nothing could be worse than Medoc . |
| 17 | Nothing could be funnier . |
| 18 | Nothing could be further from the home life of our own Combined Services Sports Board , which has yet to recognise the 13-a-side code . |
| 19 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 20 | Let me say here that nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 21 | It was a race which highlighted his incredible distance running ability , and the TV and newspaper press naturally assumed that Zarei was an athlete dedicated to winning and record breaking , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 22 | She removed his arm , saying evenly , ‘ Nothing could be further from my mind . |
| 23 | At Barclays nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 24 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 25 | You can see , therefore , that when hypnosis is compared to being asleep , nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 26 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 27 | Alternatively it may be that you hanker after some lost love and are therefore convinced that we are doing the same , when in most cases nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 28 | The impression was that we wanted sponsors cash even if it detracted from development funds , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 29 | Nothing could be further from his mind , he assured Leopold . |
| 30 | But nothing could be further from the truth . |