Example sentences of "could [be] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised she even knew what sandpaper was ; but I could be such a fool in not knowing people . |
| 2 | Oh dear , Willi could be such a fool . |
| 3 | The inspector from the education department who could be such a trial came to the opening ceremony . |
| 4 | Even her shoes , he noted with a glance down , were expensive , and shoes could be such a giveaway . |
| 5 | It is certainly true that popular rule , conceived of in the simplest terms , does not logically imply a commitment to respect for individual liberty : there could be such a thing as popular tyranny , or a popularly endorsed tyranny . |
| 6 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 7 | And it could be such a disappointment . |
| 8 | That today 's Cambridge scene could be such a fake ? |
| 9 | In the East , ‘ there could be such a lust for reunification for economic reasons , to get access to the prosperity of West Germany , that it will pressurise all the existing political parties into embracing reunification . ’ |
| 10 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 11 | Reading his letters about dogs , you incubate a silent fury that any intelligent man could be such an idiot . |
| 12 | But there never could be such an observer — at least not if his thought-processes were to be analysed in the same way as ours — because his thoughts about the relations of the particulars would themselves be just a succession of particulars whose relations , which give them meaning , were not directly accessible to him . |
| 13 | There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them . |
| 14 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |
| 15 | You Tony could be cleaner the bus shelter . |
| 16 | Low blood sugar level , that could be half the problem . |