Example sentences of "could be [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be peeping from the eye-socket of any of the saurian skulls with jewels atip their horns mounted on the walls . |
| 2 | He turned his head so that when he opened his eyes he could be facing into the clearing . |
| 3 | Chatterjee then had the idea that maybe fusion could be acting within the Earth in the vicinity of the hot springs ; that 50 kilometres down beneath the ground the pressure and temperature caused the Earth to be a fusion engine . |
| 4 | But many more could be slipping through the net . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ There 's a suspicion that we could be getting into a mess . |
| 6 | She wished she could be siting in the Prego Café , listening to the mind-pounding rhythms of the juke box . |
| 7 | ‘ You could be competing in the backstroke at Southport , and then have to travel to Cleethorpes or Torquay for the free style or breaststroke . |
| 8 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 9 | You could be looking at a minimum of one , two , three years ' salary , because you might be thinking well at least that 'll give me a chance to get on , to get back on my feet . |
| 10 | He could be looking at a device which at any moment could be activated by a radio-operated switch . |
| 11 | Regardless of the pit closure programme ta erm we 're in full flight erm at the end of the day we could be looking at a situation with four pits remaining in Nottinghamshire er and to that extent there 'll be up to four thousand miners still reliant on the services of , should er remain open . |
| 12 | A windfall or an inheritance is not out of the question , and we could be looking at the end of March , May or October-November for a material or financial boost . |
| 13 | Now , you see , in Rafferty 's here we could be sittin' on a gold mine . ’ |
| 14 | It seduced his imagination : woolly wisps streaming past told him nothing ; he could be flying into a mountainside … or diving … or two seconds away from a collision … |
| 15 | If you think a man could be missing from the job a couple of hours without anyone knowing it , you do n't know Ogden Textiles , Mr. Preston . ’ |
| 16 | Derelict buildings , old workings , dams and hushes scar the land and everywhere there are the cones of spoil heaps that stretch acre upon acre in some places , so that you feel at times that you could be standing on the surface of the moon . |
| 17 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 18 | I could get myself into trouble with a colleague of yours in another town but er I am hopeful , so as I say , er on the seventeenth of January then we could be returning to the situation and I understand in nineteen seventy four when there was a sergeant and six constables here in until the demise of the Urban District Council when they were all moved to . |
| 19 | But be warned : if you own more than one sign , PC Plod could be knocking on the door with a warrant one day . |
| 20 | But as Shaffer remembers : ‘ He could be talking about a death and get himself very worked up about what he was saying , very passionate about whatever made him worried or angry . |
| 21 | It could be threatening to the group or at least bad manners for a lion or a wolf or a hyena to yelp and limp on twisting an ankle during a communal stalk . |
| 22 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 23 | Well , those trade figures were better than expected , which was good news after yesterday 's warning from the Chancellor John Major that Britain could be heading for a recession . |
| 24 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 25 | Darlington have chosen largely unknown Queensland pace bowler Scott Muller as their professional partly because of his qualifications as a coach but if former Lancashire player , Jack Simmons ' opinion proves correct they could be challenging for the title yet again . |
| 26 | She continued : ‘ I like it and I think it will always remain an excellent centre , although it could be doing with a degree of refurbishment . ’ |
| 27 | THE picture of wizened old Frenchmen puffing contentedly on their Gauloises over a glass of pastis could be coming to an end — by law . |
| 28 | BRIAN CLOUGH is to be given the Freedom of Nottingham — after rumours in the city that his reign at Forest could be coming to an end . |
| 29 | If it does , the responsibility that goes with it , could be making of the man , who 's been described as a victim of his own background . |
| 30 | It was a real exciting year ; all the stuff was brand new and you could be driving to the gig and hear your record on the radio . |