Sentence examples for could be substantive from inspiring English sources
The statement says construction of roads and drilling pads could cause soil erosion; forest dwellers like the Indiana bat could suffer; and "conflicts with recreation uses could be substantive".
This could be substantive during interim periods when it is unclear whether the current year would reference the year about to start or the year recently completed (enumerators should have made this clear).
Beyond that, however, because no substantive comments were made, there could be no substantive responses.
But he added that conferences could be "pretty substantive," despite the fund-raising that motivated them.
Readers might find them good for a giggle though, while neither article could be called substantive, neither is short.
There is a mix of men and women discussing the parts of the paper that could be deemed substantive or less so.
The dependencies between θ and δ as assessed by multigroup mixture PD models could be of substantive interest in real applications.
The trouble is that the analysis — absurdly — makes it seem as though when something has just one degree of brightness there could be a substantive question which (if any) of the three mentioned in the analysis — x or y or z — it was, as though a degree of brightness were some kind of corpuscle whose association with a thing made it bright (cf. Klagge and Nordmann, 33).
If you rely on process to deny what could be a substantive claim, I worry about where that will lead us.
"It would be substantive.
