Example sentences of "[pron] could [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm worried that I could be developing agoraphobia .
2 The result is likely to be closer relationships between customers and suppliers , which could be good news : Japanese companies such as Honda Motor tend to choose a few preferred suppliers and stick with them , rather than playing the field , and this policy seems to have paid off handsomely .
3 If she could be sure Miguel was there , she could walk up and ask for the jeep .
4 She could be growing cold .
5 You could be right Fred I do n't , I 've not heard that one .
6 Aye you could be right Murchison said and he slipped it back into the water .
7 Otherwise you could be changing status now only to change back again very shortly and it is not worth the upheaval for what would only be a marginal difference . ’
8 But you could be important witnesses .
9 ‘ She said in her letter that she did n't think we could be happy living at Maythorpe House , that she 'd be lonely and probably would n't make me a very good wife .
10 Now if these issues are badly handled , yes there could be civil war between the Republics .
11 Indeed , there could be peaceful co-existence between different political systems .
12 Labour governments leant more sympathetically towards ideas ( of which there could be endless variations ) for some kind of ‘ Open Broadcasting Authority ’ to use the Annan Committee 's phrase .
13 There could be legal problems for you , and problems of security . "
14 There could be grand pianos , campers ,
15 Early impressions suggest that there could be keen competition to provide such a service — if the money can be found !
16 The British National Party candidate said there could be violent clashes between fascists and left-wing supporters when he bids to unseat local Tory MP and schools minister Michael Fallon .
17 What is even worse , however , is that as the two fonts may have been prepared from different masters there could be subtle variations between them — even though they are notionally the same typeface .
18 Erm , my fourth one was the effect on the medical centre , bearing in mind , but I did n't say that at the time , that there 's to be no longer sheltered , and there could be young families , remember , more rowdy an element , and maybe we should make details of that .
19 In all cases , there could be great involvement in a whole range of legal issues .
20 His criticisms are directed more at his followers , who fail to recognize , not only that other great past minds have something to teach , but also , more importantly , that there could be great minds in the future .
21 There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts .
22 The proposal in the review is that you probably will need to keep your joint care teams , your JCTs , which tend of course to be professionally and officer dominated , but there are strong feelings throughout the county , and one has to remember the run up to local government , erm , the local government commission is on , strong feelings especially from the voluntary sector , but also from the district councils , that there could be renewed dynamism at the local level , in terms of local care teams .
23 There could be strong currents , which represent a hazard if the dog enters the water .
24 If the response is strong , I suppose there could be other dates , but really we 're regarding it just as a single date right now .
25 Of course , there could be other reasons .
26 Yet , there could be other reasons .
27 There could be other reasons why work left London though , and in the case of the new firms springing up in the Home Counties and the West Country , low rents rather than low wages appear to have helped Bungay , Frome and other centres to build up a clientele .
28 There could be other metals in your system like bronze , lead and aluminium that wo n't be attracted to a magnet and they will have to be physically screened for .
29 Mr Babic says strawcrete passes that test … but there could be other problems to overcome .
30 Dr Conway Morris has always said there could be other ways to make sense of Hallucigenia , and agrees that the new interpretation may be better .
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