Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could only be so if the seller had stolen the goods . |
| 2 | It could not be otherwise if literary intelligence was to make itself available in drawing-rooms to administrative and political decision making . |
| 3 | It could not be otherwise because the very difference and supremacy of the West were constructed around this image of Arab and Islamic otherness . |
| 4 | It could not be there unless the object reflected in this way existed . |
| 5 | It could not be long before the football emperor was in truly royal circles He met King George V , Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales , and often discussed points of play with the King during Cup finals . |
| 6 | Meehan should have been released immediately , but instead the authorities offered him parole , that is release on licence , which he properly and courageously rejected , knowing it could not be long before he was released unconditionally . |
| 7 | As I passed the boy , who could not be more than 10 years of age , he said : |
| 8 | I would say from the point where I was told on the radio that the officers were entering the premises to the point where I was told everybody was secured , could not be more than four five minutes . |
| 9 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 10 | This could hardly be so if a conception of such connections was no part of neuroscience . |
| 11 | She and Dmitri could still be here when they were seventy . |
| 12 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 13 | She did n't know Geoffrey 's exact age , but the gap could n't be less than five or six years . |
| 14 | But this girl who could n't be more than twenty-two or twenty-three was going to do it , not he . |
| 15 | He was , perhaps , slightly thinner than she remembered , and , although he could n't be more than thirty-five , there were now some faint silver threads among the dark hair at his temples . |