Example sentences of "could be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , given formal records management input , particularly to the list server and news group elements , and the matching input from the technologists to save and migrate those records , then archivists and historians could be entering a golden age . |
| 2 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
| 3 | Similarly , a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation . |
| 4 | Similarly , a migrating bird could be seeking a particular patterning of the stars or an instinctive orientation to the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 5 | People in Didcot could be getting a new swimming pool . |
| 6 | You will not only be embarking on an interesting and responsible job but could be laying a fine foundation for a career in account management . |
| 7 | He could be granted a free transfer by FIFA when they adjudicate within a fortnight . |
| 8 | The fact that such a proposition could be presented a industrial democracy exposes the reality : that the exercise was about the extension of the powers of unreformed trade unionism . |
| 9 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 10 | Many of our decisions will have enduring practical implications of what could be called a moral sort . |
| 11 | For example , the Laki eruption taken as a whole constitutes a splendid example of a fissure eruption , but along its twenty-five kilometre length dozens of small volcanic cones were built up , none of them very big , although each one , if considered separately , could be called a central vent volcano . |
| 12 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 13 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 14 | It would be totally random , so it could be called a random walk . |
| 15 | Just as ‘ balloon ’ rhymes with ‘ moon ’ , so we might say that ‘ some chairs ’ has what could be called a tonal rhyme with ‘ some ’ . |
| 16 | Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression . |
| 17 | An alternative science — what could be called a psychodynamic science — has been described as the study of live objects which are seen , experienced and recognised subjectively in contrast to traditional sciences which study ‘ objects only ’ : |
| 18 | Cos that 's the most frustrating thing about fishing is when you 're like you know , you could be wasting that , you , you think to yourself like I could be wasting a whole , there 's not a fish anywhere round here ! |
| 19 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 20 | Alternatively , a chair could be elected from within the family ; if the person acting as chair varied , a teenager could be given a valuable chance to assume and exercise responsibility . |
| 21 | Installation is quick and clean , and very soon you could be enjoying a warm , comfortable swim whatever the weather . |
| 22 | The designer could be assigned a geometric domain in which to work — this would be described by default values within an assembly model . |
| 23 | Alongside the EC Green Paper there could be listed a substantial number of ‘ European ’ initiatives . |
| 24 | If you are owed or could be owed a considerable amount , or any amount , it is important for you to know that : |
| 25 | We were in no danger , although as first-time visitors to southern Africa we could be forgiven a slight tremble on the camera shutter . |
| 26 | But former Elland Road favourite Eddie Gray could be forgiven a wry smile at today 's free-spending ways . |
| 27 | But the main goal of the 1990s could be to transform a big , heavily armed standing army into a more flexible force , capable of rapid deployment around the globe . |
| 28 | The Prospect Inn , which could be restored a major tourist attraction , is also threatened by a road widening proposal by Kent County Council , although the local authority , Thanet , understand its importance and value the building . |
| 29 | Similarly , the catalogue user who specifies his query to correspond with a document title could be adopting a fixed or matching search approach , whereas a less defined query could lead to an open or contextual search approach . |
| 30 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |