Example sentences of "could be [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
2 | This could be made much more complex , but there 's certainly enough to get started if at least one of the participants has some previous experience . |
3 | A further disbursement of SDR87,600,000 could be made available later if certain conditions were met . |
4 | With leases quite often running for terms of 25 years and with rent reviews multiplying " manageable " rents , an individual who is joined as a guarantor at the commencement of a lease could be made bankrupt several years after the original tenant has parted with the lease . |
5 | Mm , because you , you erm have er the , obviously that you could be sent some dubious tapes ? |
6 | All around my rooftop pavilion could be seen other fragmentary remains of the Jahanpanah which Ibn Battuta would have known : a series of fragile mediaeval islands standing out amid the sea of modern sprawl . |
7 | The sound of a slammed door and the pitter patter sound of a girl running for her life , were the only sounds which could be heard that frosty , November morning . |
8 | It is an approach now being taken up increasingly , too , in teacher education ; and could be countenanced much more in other practically oriented curricula . |
9 | As for the title , it could be called any one of John Russell 's names ; he had more than one as you will see . |
10 | I spoke to a number of women who started their working lives in the grant-aided film and video sector , to find out whether the personal choices they had made could be given any wider significance . |
11 | These factors make it unlikely that his dicta , even if accepted by other members of the Court , could be given any more general applicability . |
12 | The GPs fear those services could be moved twenty five miles away to Oxford under a review ordered by the District Health Authority . |
13 | He could be forgiven one disappointing season with a track record like that . |
14 | I could be chasing some exciting story now ! ’ she raged . |
15 | Unemployment could be reduced given proper economic management and the appropriate institutional reforms , they would claim . |
16 | She was told by the Chief Constable of the district ( who was accompanied by the Inspector who became the respondent in the appeal ) that a meeting could not be held on the spot , but could be held some 175 yards distant , around the corner . |
17 | Or down the scale again , the husband could be paying twenty five percent and the wife twenty percent , and they could switch investments between the two . |
18 | This approach was made feasible by improvements in silicon chip technology , such that these chips could be clocked first 1 million , then 10 million , and now over 100 million times each second . |
19 | Consumers could be offered many different kinds of tariff , for example : |
20 | On its executive could be found such skilful publicists as Michael Foot , M.P. , Kingsley Martin ( editor of the New Statesman ) , James Cameron , a leading journalist of protest , and Priestley himself . |
21 | ‘ It just seems a little weird that we could be playing opposite each other in a semi-final of a big competition . ’ |
22 | Now he could be initiated one vital stage further into the cult of Dorn . |
23 | It looks like our ‘ friends ’ at the end of the East Lancs could be awaiting another 25 , or is it 26 years now ! |