Example sentences of "could be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first example of his tenacity , he pointed out that there could be no guarantee that the government 's privatization plans would go ahead in their then current form and they might not happen at all . |
| 2 | Coun Cresswell said building another wooden pavilion would be a ‘ futile , penny-pinching exercise ’ , as there could be no guarantee against another arson attack . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | Because there could be no idea of God in the mind without God putting it there , an idea of God was impossible without God 's existence . |
| 5 | For Gorbachev , opening the meeting , there could be no retreat from Leninist principles , or from the ‘ internationalist inheritance ’ of the revolution . |
| 6 | In foreign affairs , equally , there could be no retreat from ‘ class ’ positions , and no ‘ artificial ‘ slow-down ’ in the social and national-liberation struggle' . |
| 7 | Without justice there could be no peace ; a knight was in honour bound to strive for justice , and at the ceremony of his dubbing his sword had been blessed so that , with the approval of the Church thus clearly implied , it might become a sword for justice . |
| 8 | Given these conditions , there could be no overproduction ( or , in other words , no general deficiency of aggregate demand ) and full employment would be assured . |
| 9 | Equally , there could be no logic in treating the existence of the further caution as a reasonable excuse for not answering , for the words of the caution would make sense only if the Director could not compel an answer — in which case no excuse , reasonable or otherwise , for silence would be required . |
| 10 | For chaos was the natural state and there could be no protection against the chance encounter of the Manchurian marmot and the black rat . ’ |
| 11 | Clearly , there could be no element of surprise , and although the rebel advance had been rapid until then , it had effectively been halted at the gates of Madrid . |
| 12 | He had been added to confirm his father 's hold on power : if the Congress would passively accept such a nomination then there could be no threat to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's authority from within , or so it must have seemed . |
| 13 | The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy . |
| 14 | All we wanted was proof that John was alive and to know why he was being held , but government policy was so rigid that there could be no contact , no discussions . |
| 15 | Another extraordinary feature of the situation was that ND 's executive officer , John Torkington , put over a PA announcement to the effect that there could be no play while any rain continued unless both captains agreed . |
| 16 | So there could be no significance to it whatsoever . |
| 17 | There could be no quarrel with fyrs = furze , for Fursey , but a search seemed indicated for fors . |
| 18 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 19 | There could be no other like her anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | The other Rex Mundi , because , of course , it could be no other , rent hair from his head and flung it to the floor where it exploded in small sulphurous puffs of smoke . |
| 21 | If there were no concept of femininity , there could be no concept of masculinity either . |
| 22 | There could be no hesitation here . |
| 23 | There could be no mistake — she was a fine deep red with a distinctive white mark like a football on her left flank . |
| 24 | In this case ideology would simply be a way of loading the dice in one 's own favour and hence since the ground rules would obviously vary there could be no way of ever comparing two ideologies . |
| 25 | The point that might be made in this connection is that without the particular there could be no way of understanding what might be meant by the ultimate . |
| 26 | For him , from the moment you entered the race , there could be no respite . |
| 27 | But in the worst-case scenario , if the heir to the throne can not hold his marriage together , there could be no throne left for him , or his eldest son , to inherit . |
| 28 | Until Palestinians learnt to rely upon themselves and their own productivity , implying a withdrawal of both custom and labour from the Israeli sector , there could be no hope of liberation . |
| 29 | If Anselm with so many claims to respect could not do better than this , there could be no hope except in forgery : this was to be the next step . |
| 30 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |