Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , a person could be guilty of the most serious non-fatal assault but not of the lesser assault ! |
| 2 | In Cottee v. Douglas Seaton ( Used Cars ) Ltd. ( 1972 D.C. ) the court had to decide to what extent an honest man could be guilty under the section . |
| 3 | In other words , he made it plain that to that extent the second appellant could be guilty on the basis of concert . |
| 4 | So the ruling by the Supreme Court in Washington could be devastating for the industry . |
| 5 | Guns like these could be devastating in the wrong hands . |
| 6 | In an attempt to provide concise information on this point I have gathered together details of all the surviving English harpsichords from the period 1700–1744 , judging that nothing outside this time span could be relevant to the Mercier picture . |
| 7 | This was his first major starring role in the West End and he could be pleased with the rave notices , but there was one tinge of disappointment . |
| 8 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 9 | Could be confusing from the scorebox — and the Press-box . |
| 10 | THE right-wing challenger Glafcos Clerides appeared to be heading for a narrow victory last night in a Cyprus presidential election which could be crucial for the future of the divided island . |
| 11 | A pregnancy with an IUD in place could be ectopic outside the womb . |
| 12 | The report states that current information suggests that in the UK and many other countries the daily intake of dioxins could be close to the recommended levels . |
| 13 | Nicandra ran towards all that beauty — although she could not tell her trouble nor make any mention of the displeasing butterfly , she could be close in the adored distance . |
| 14 | More urgently , one could be forearmed against the Antichrist , the powerful , personal opponent of Christ who ( as in 1 John 2:18 ) was expected to appear before the end of the world . |
| 15 | Used for formative purposes , an assessment based on weak evidence could be misleading to the pupil . |
| 16 | This triumph could be due to the outcome of a fight for a mate , or over territory or for food , or over some other issue . |
| 17 | It could be due to the mild weather that occurred in the autumn when the lambs were conceived , he said . |
| 18 | The additional bicarbonate ( 15% ) , derived from organic matter oxidation , could be due to the metabolism of as yet unknown Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms , or , given that the concretions contain some FeS , to the activity of SRB like Desulfobacter . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 20 | However , the analyst should be aware that variances between the model and a particular user 's view could be due to the narrow perception of that user . |
| 21 | The cause of this is unclear but it could be due to the trophic effect of hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa , an effect of smoking , an inherited characteristic , or a combination of these . |
| 22 | This could be due to the notorious solubility problems with halofantrine which will be especially prominent in in-vitro systems with drug in solution . |
| 23 | Delay might give a spurious temptation to the so-called Yugoslavian army to exercise certain initiatives that could be detrimental to the freedom of other republics . |
| 24 | The scale of fee should be commensurate with the risk undertaken , except where this could be detrimental to the establishment of a long term recurring client relationship , in so far as such opportunity presents itself when acting for a vendor client . |
| 25 | He thought that it would be nice if the BBC could be present at the press conference in their own right instead of getting a ‘ home grown ’ story at second hand , and so he contacted Richard Cookson , a close friend and retired Professor of Chemistry at Southampton University , whose son Clive was science correspondent with the BBC Radio . |
| 26 | She could n't accept that Christ ’ s body could be present in the sacrament and at the same time physically in heaven at God 's right hand . |
| 27 | Most verbs which are used of situations where the object — talking strictly of the intensional level and not of the world referred to — does not change its properties ( between the narrow focus on the object phrase alone , and the wider view when it is construed with the verb and the adjective as in ( 22 ) ) will not be suitable ; if a property that might be expressed by an adjective could be present in the wider structural context , then its applicability will not normally be connected with the link between the verb and the noun phrase . |
| 28 | Australian Mutual Provident executives were yesterday believed to be mounting plans for a takeover which could be one of the largest acquisitions made in the British life insurer sector . |
| 29 | A student at Leeds Polytechnic , Birkett could be one of the substitutes tomorrow at Halifax . |
| 30 | Bebeto and Romario could be one of the best attacking combinations next summer and , with most of the team based in Europe , Brazil will have no problems acclimatising . |