Example sentences of "we could be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snows of Mount Hermon streaming northwards , the blue vales of Galilee , the brown waters of the Litani encircled us in that little cyclone , We could be seen , for above the sound of the gale we heard the clatter of bullets tossed by the wind against the ramparts . |
| 2 | Now , you see , in Rafferty 's here we could be sittin' on a gold mine . ’ |
| 3 | There 's a few obvious influences from The Doors and Velvet Underground but with new single When Violets Meet and album tracks Evy Waters and Purple Psyche Celebration showing so much promise , methinks we could be hearing a bit more about the band . |
| 4 | But I am constantly in trouble with the law , because I always kiss my boyfriend in public and we could be prosecuted for that . |
| 5 | We could be prosecuted for kissing in my front room if the curtains were open and someone looked in and took offence |
| 6 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 7 | ‘ But we could be dealing with something that could take several generations to come out . ’ |
| 8 | like Alligator Gun for example I know is coming to the , to the Kings up the road here quite soon and then it 's going to Glasgow later on , and I keep thinking every time this sort of thing , thing 's happening I keep thinking we could be dealing with these |
| 9 | We were in no danger , although as first-time visitors to southern Africa we could be forgiven a slight tremble on the camera shutter . |
| 10 | Robert Hewison is a very unhappy man ; at least , we could be forgiven for thinking so after reading ‘ Future Tense ’ ( Methuen , £7.99 ) his follow-up to The Heritage Industry . |
| 11 | Conversely , strong ‘ selection pressure ’ , we could be forgiven for thinking , might be expected to lead to rapid evolution . |
| 12 | Yes , well they 're the only two we could be thinking about . |
| 13 | There 's fresh water , and I found some fishing tackle , so with a bit of luck we could be eating in style tonight . ’ |
| 14 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Most of us are too polite to object , but imagine the embarrassment we could be saved if the authorities allowed people to ride in shirtsleeves in hot weather . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 21 | Next Saturday the big race is the Guinness Champion Stakes at Leopardstown and with Market Booster in the field we could be looking at a future star . |
| 22 | Erm oh well I 'll er the other thing I was thinking of is that er we could be looking er towards beginning , you know even now , to doing a trips network and things like that . |
| 23 | We could be handling it all wrong . |
| 24 | Even if we do have jobs and incomes we all know we could be touched personally by public events at any moment . |
| 25 | If this does not happen we could be facing the appalling prospect of over half the UK 's coal production coming from a method that was only initially allowed as an emergency War-time contingency . |
| 26 | We have to agree with Meryl who said , ‘ I think we should all support these small shops , we could be lost without them . ’ |
| 27 | the only thing to bear in mind is that we a little bit careful w with the changing environment we 're working in that it , with it only being pushed forward by direct projects if if nobody else wants it we could be wasting some of our money . |
| 28 | Indeed , if the Council have any other similar projects in which we could be involved , we would be happy to help . |
| 29 | So I believe we could be entering a danger zone now . |
| 30 | I think we could be moving . |