Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman 's world was more private , she was in charge of it in a way that you could n't be if you were a man . |
| 2 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 3 | But they could n't be because I never take them off . " |
| 4 | It could even be that you need to change job altogether . |
| 5 | It could even be that one of the worn words on the aforementioned standing stone was ‘ Drustans ’ , another name for Tristan and that the stone marked the place where Mark ordered the lovers to be buried together . |
| 6 | It could even be that we are moving into a hitherto unknown dimension with the next steps in IT . |
| 7 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 8 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 9 | It could also be that Widnes 's match with Barrow last Sunday will be deducted from his current eight-match suspension . |
| 10 | It could also be that there is a general deficiency of demand for labour throughout the economy , in which case the involuntarily unemployed workers will face fierce competition for the jobs that do become available . |
| 11 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 12 | It could also be that those who remain to resume operations in London are lying low because of the fear of target surveillance by increased security service activity and resources . |
| 13 | It could also be because there was also a noticeable increase in the incidence of liver cirrhosis discharges during this period and the most liver cirrhosis cases are also caused by alcohol abuse in Finland . |
| 14 | It could just be that some of us get married to creatures that fit that description , so perhaps there 's a mysterious kind of genetic memory involved here . |
| 15 | Furthermore , it could just be that his union might contain diverse political factions within it which , thanks to years of forced and unenforced apartheid , have come to permeate every fabric of society and may well have forced SARU into an on-going powerplay with SARB . |
| 16 | It could just be that you are the indirect cause of the complaint and the action you take has a consequential impact on the customer . |
| 17 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 18 | It could just be that you 're the person in your family who knows what 's on all those video tapes that nobody 's labelled up . |
| 19 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 20 | It was not unlike the feeling she experienced when men looked at her and wanted her though she knew it could not be that for there was nothing sexual between her and Gary and never would be . |
| 21 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 22 | Of course it could n't be that Nick had been relieved . |
| 23 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 24 | It could n't be but it was . |
| 25 | No it could n't be cos that 's the gulf where the sun goes down . |
| 26 | It could n't be because golf carts — ’ he levelled a look at Nelson ‘ — are careening round the grounds with a complete lack of any regard for safety . |
| 27 | ‘ It could n't be because I am , I suppose ? ’ |
| 28 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 29 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 30 | This might put pressures on the sons and it could well be that not all would feel able or willing to take on the task . |