Example sentences of "could pass for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With more hair she could pass for Springsteen being playful in the dark . |
| 2 | Yet Tate , herself a Jamaican , found that her second-generation informants used Jamaican Creole as their in-group language , and sounded so authentic that they could pass for Jamaicans in Jamaica , in her judgement ( personal communication ) . |
| 3 | Of course there are some woods in the ebony family which could pass for rosewood , and vice versa , and as this is a prototype instrument , anything 's possible . |
| 4 | This ranged from yellow gold with comparatively low values for silver , through pale yellow electrum with a higher silver content , to white gold which could pass for silver . |
| 5 | The judge said there was only sentence he could pass for murder , Kelly would go prison for life . |