Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand how this could be involves some understanding of the representation problem , and to decide that any given pattern of behaviour has this character of being , as one might put it , ‘ biologically discouraged ’ requires one to be able to read the historical record . |
| 2 | I think potentially Professor Lock you could be inventing some work for barristers given that Policy I eleven says provision will not be made . |
| 3 | me , aye , it could be developed that 's what you 're saying ? |
| 4 | Allowing for the time he 's already spent in cutody , that means Rachael could be freed this autumn . |
| 5 | Before such an objective could be achieved much work was required . |
| 6 | WW has had a difficult time , suffering heavy losses on its glass side , but profits could be achieved this year . |
| 7 | It could be argued that failure to attend for , for example , part of one school day during any particular week , would not be truancy under the law . |
| 8 | THERE are fears that Newcastle 's summer buy Paul Bracewell could be facing another battle to save his career . |
| 9 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are many traces of ritual in ordinary household life , and perhaps these could be made more use of , and new ones established . |
| 12 | In this way perhaps examination assessment could be made more objective . |
| 13 | Fields already declared commercial are likely to produce at 100,000 barrels per day ( 5 million tonnes ) and it is predicted that by 1990 the Netherlands could be meeting some 20% of its oil requirements . |
| 14 | If you live in London , all your hairdressing problems could be answered this summer . |
| 15 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 16 | Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight . |
| 17 | He also said the US administration would seek an additional agreement that would give US airlines new access to British airports and confirmed that he hoped a new aviation agreement could be reached this year between the US and the UK . |
| 18 | Mr Pena hoped that a new aviation agreement could be reached this year between the US and the UK and added that the US would vigorously defend the right of its carriers abroad . |
| 19 | Mm , because you , you erm have er the , obviously that you could be sent some dubious tapes ? |
| 20 | My father thus replied to the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken into account , Mr Silvers could be assured that service would be provided to the usual standards . |
| 21 | The decision to enter could be announced any time after completed negotiations and entry could take effect the next weekend , when markets are closed . |
| 22 | There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him . |
| 23 | It could be seen any day in the car parks attached to various chemical plants in the Runcorn area . |
| 24 | He could be seen most mornings at the door of his shop in Wimbledon Village , arms crossed , mouth twisted in a superior sneer , just waiting for the chance to decode the small print on the front of buses . |
| 25 | All that could be done that day had been done . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It could be said that scripture 's view of the Devil and the evil spirits is mythological . |
| 28 | It is an approach now being taken up increasingly , too , in teacher education ; and could be countenanced much more in other practically oriented curricula . |
| 29 | It sounds rather extravagant , but then my whole relationship with the organization could be called that . |
| 30 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |