Example sentences of "could be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you honestly trying to suggest that a drugs ring could be operating right under my nose without my knowledge ? ’ |
| 2 | Diplomats say western countries are worried , however , that they could be clinging too long to a leader whose domestic support is fading . |
| 3 | It 's very likely that the Petites and their children 's children could be living here for another 100 years . |
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| 6 | Texas 's on-board video circuitry is excellent for vanilla VGA and for all my eyes tell me , I could be hacking away at the Hyundai . |
| 7 | Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record |
| 8 | The Post Office says the strikers could be acting illegally . |
| 9 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
| 10 | Our own hardships palled to insignificance when we learned that often their ships were away from home for six months , and that they could be roaming as far afield as Nova Scotia after leaving Scotland . |
| 11 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 12 | Capture the winner and you and a companion could be getting away from it all in style . |
| 13 | ‘ I could be getting very fed up with him and his little ways . |
| 14 | The one hundred and fifty-foot Grand Fir was operated on by tree surgeons who were worried it could be getting too big for its roots . |
| 15 | Their pupils could be learning either to duck and cover again or to stop worrying and live with the bomb . |
| 16 | Then I realised that whoever had done it could be hiding somewhere near , waiting to attack again . |
| 17 | and I do n't feel that I could be taking too much money out without putting a certain amount back into it |
| 18 | With interest rates at their lowest level for 15 years , your savings could be earning only 3 per cent interest . |
| 19 | By the latter part of the next decade , Nissan , Toyota and Honda could be producing nearly one million vehicles in the UK alone , according to some industry analysts . |
| 20 | Who could be phoning here ? |
| 21 | And if I get the right role , I could be flying again . ’ |
| 22 | Jim Magilton could be missing tomorrow he 's doubtful Paul Wanless is standing by to take his place |
| 23 | Although the news on that looks like it could be improving too . |
| 24 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 25 | They could be emitting as much energy as a large power station . |
| 26 | In terms of the principles involved , we could be talking here about playing chess or reading a page of text . |
| 27 | We could be legislating well into the next century . |
| 28 | There I tried to ease my worries by shipping a Freezobalm and thinking about the fee I could be carrying away from Ixyphal II . |
| 29 | They do n't take flight immediately as they could be heading straight into the lion 's mouth , so to speak . |
| 30 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |