Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Japan and Norway are both continuing research into wave power , and renewable energy campaigners believe that wave power could still be a major UK power contribution if research was encouraged and subsidised by the Government . |
| 32 | The numbers could still be a reliable guide to a player 's position even with all the playing formations these days . |
| 33 | True the odd Wykehamist could always be a socialist , but now , it seems , you can even have bought your council house and be a member of the party . |
| 34 | Council was doubtful , however , if a system of internal validition could ever be a complete substitute for a system of external validation ’ . |
| 35 | Poole 's letter to Coleridge of about 10 December has not survived , but it was the cause of ‘ unexpected and most acute pain ’ and expressed Poole 's doubts that the Lime Street cottage could ever be a suitable home . |
| 36 | Pareto and Mosca ransacked history for multiple examples of this ‘ natural ’ cycle in operation , claiming that the accumulated weight of evidence refuted Marxist claims that there could ever be a classless society and liberals ' optimism that power could ever be meaningfully dispersed under popular control by establishing representative government . |
| 37 | It was questioned whether there could ever be a single dominant ideology . |
| 38 | Moreover , when the Historia Brittonum ( ch. 65 ) accords Ecgfrith , son of Oswiu , a reign of nine years , this is an error for fourteen ( viiii for xiiii ) ; x years for Penda could conceivably be a partial transcription of xxii . |
| 39 | CECIL therefore provides an objective way of determining the pitched of words and phrases , which could clearly be a great help , both for analysis and for language learning , but the information it provides is only raw data and must still be analysed . |
| 40 | This periodic tenancy could also be a legal tenancy if X and Y's rental relationship complies with the three conditions for informal legal leases ( see s. 54(2) LPA 1925 above ) . |
| 41 | This could also be a good time to look at your yard layout . |
| 42 | Hayward was gregarious , a great attender of dinners and parties , but he could also be a caustic and gossipy creature given to telling salacious stories . |
| 43 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 44 | It could also be a useful was of spotting the disease early — when chances of containing it are best . |
| 45 | There could also be a brief introduction on which direction to do the route ; and the eventual booklet should include information on how to get back ( ? by public transport ) to the starting point — this can , I imagine , be supplied by the Council . |
| 46 | There could also be a Commercial Court of Appeal with its own , higher paid , judges . |
| 47 | The rival factions involved were sometimes family groups whose hostility was longstanding , but there could also be a local clerical faction : archdeacons tended to have high hopes of gaining the episcopate and could mobilize a body of support . |
| 48 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 49 | It could also be a wild-goose chase . ’ |
| 50 | She suggests that this could now be a money-making idea for the University and the alumni association . |
| 51 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 52 | Some sceptics have been quick to see that this could well be a familiar pointer to the future — suggest a service for closure in the hope that the relevant council will come up with the money to reprieve it . |
| 53 | India could well be a future saviour . |
| 54 | Whether the Commissioner is being over-optimistic , or whether her perceptions are indeed correct , could well be a fertile area for further study , examining the trade union experience of the Commissioner . |
| 55 | Just how much they obtain there from is known only to themselves , but this could well be a final act born of an inextinguishable instinctive knowledge that there is somewhere a source of power available to the individual whereby he can supplement his capacity to face a fading future , or any other of life 's unwelcome experiences , at least with less apprehension , if not with absolute serenity . |
| 56 | SUMMER is n't over yet — and next week could well be a real scorcher . |
| 57 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 58 | It could well be a best seller . |
| 59 | There could well be a major collapse in the administration of local government funding . |
| 60 | Now would seem to be a good time to buy PCs , but there could well be a certain amount of hassle before your new wonder computer is up and running properly . |