Example sentences of "could be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 2 | ‘ You could be cursing the job and her . |
| 3 | I think that 's disgusting going abroad taking chi , a child that 's got chicken pox abroad and the other one she could be incubating the disease any way I bet you any mo money she comes down with it as well |
| 4 | They were all on runners and could be manoeuvred the length of the room . |
| 5 | One option could be to close the pool . |
| 6 | BRITISH fighter pilots could be patrolling the skies over Bosnia within days after the Government yesterday made it clear it was willing to help enforce the United Nations no-fly zone . |
| 7 | If it does n't come up with a rescue deal by the summer , these men and women could be reaching the end of their working lives . |
| 8 | Most of these poets whose labour was fairly specialized were conscious of an occupational identity which could be made the subject of verse . |
| 9 | In the latter case , they could be made the subject of a Mental Health Order , but there is little precedent for so doing . |
| 10 | ‘ But before the payment could be made the owner of The Mail on Sunday , Lord Rothermere , issued a directive that no money should be paid to criminals or their families . |
| 11 | NEIL FOSTER faces an Essex fine for kicking stumps in anger but this weekend he could be punching the air in delight if he receives an England recall for next week 's second Test against Australia at Lord 's . |
| 12 | NEIL FOSTER faces an Essex fine for kicking stumps in anger but this weekend he could be punching the air in delight if he receives an England recall for next week 's second Test against Australia at Lord 's . |
| 13 | ‘ So he could be getting the money there ? ’ |
| 14 | This contained a variety of animals — fowl and sixty-three unspecified small birds — but before it could be served the platform supporting it gave way and the pie slipped to the ground . |
| 15 | I could be bathing the children , watching that Thomas the Tank Engine video for the 100th time … |
| 16 | These observations on human language learning , coupled with evolutionary speculations make one realise just what a formidable accomplishment it would be if apes could be taught the use of a communication system remotely approximating a natural language in creativity , recursiveness , and the extreme conventionality revealed in such matters as reference to spatio-temporally remote items or counterfactual conditionalising or universal generalisation about an unsurveyed domain . |
| 17 | It could be telling the children all of it in fact . |
| 18 | Directly above this the courtyard roof had a large pentagonal opening through which could be seen the stars , hanging above them in the heavens . |
| 19 | It was a curious evening , a backward look to pieces in which could be seen the seeds of the choreographic gift that was to develop , sometimes into epic stagings , in the years ahead . |
| 20 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 21 | Sure enough , in the distance could be heard the sound of the car returning . |
| 22 | From outside the newspaper 's offices could be heard the murmur of distant artillery as the Israelis and Phalangists fired into the city . |
| 23 | It could be said the key to his personality and the contribution which he has made to the diocese of Middlesbrough as Bishop is unfolded in an eloquent way by the new Cathedral which he caused to be built . |
| 24 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 25 | Returning to the car , or as it could be called the reps ' mobile office , there followed an impressive schedule of administration . |
| 26 | This kind of activity could be called the micro-politics of race , though in practice , as where we align ourselves with the struggles of our brothers and sisters in South Africa , it is more likely to prove the micro-politics of race 's overcoming . |
| 27 | Over half the answers to the ‘ best ’ aspects question refer to what could be called the work dimension of the role , as do almost all the answers to the ‘ worst ’ aspects question — even though these questions do not specify housework , but permit answers relating to marriage , motherhood and home life generally . |
| 28 | Historically it could be called the Taxman 's Revenge . |
| 29 | It could be called the efficiency function of the new system . |
| 30 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |