Example sentences of "could be [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The idea is a simple one ; begin working our dwindling woodland again and we could be providing the best argument for preserving it .
2 ‘ Not only that , you could be sheltering a criminal of some kind .
3 So I believe we could be entering a danger zone now .
4 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 .
5 He predicted the EC could be entering a period where the annual price negotiations assumed less importance in the farming year and the procedure moved closer to the five-year system applied in the US .
6 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
7 Erm again when I have bad days with these wrists they just give way , and this is not a mental thing at all , I mean I could be holding a , a glass or a cup in my hand or a , a , a dish of something for that matter , and the er the nerves just relax the muscle and out it goes , it 's n n I do n't know it 's going to happen , but it can happen .
8 This looks even more unconstitutional — but while the lawyers debate that question , the government could be holding the monetary line .
9 ‘ You could be cursing the job and her .
10 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
11 They were all on runners and could be manoeuvred the length of the room .
12 If these measures were applied to the country as a whole , it is conservatively estimated that a reduction of over 10,000 in jury accidents could be achieved every year .
13 It is arguable that teacher expectations and behaviour could be creating an interactive process of low expectations , low achievements and black pupil resistance , although it is important to recognize that teacher expectations do not automatically translate themselves into self-fulfilling prophecies ( Short , 1985 ) .
14 One option could be to close the pool .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The higher the proportion of this population which could be contacted the better .
18 If a three-year course could be justified the supporting subjects would probably be covered in the first year but care would have to be taken not to put too great an emphasis on the technology .
19 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 .
20 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 ?
21 A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it .
22 Undoubtedly that is a great defect : it is impossible not to wish that , musically speaking , the piece could be played an octave higher .
23 Since stage in life course is roughly correlated with age , the effect could be to generate an apparent relationship between age and poverty .
24 Just think , in a few years from now baffled Frenchmen could be facing a generation of British tourists demanding : ‘ Ee chuck !
25 ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor could be facing a showdown with Paul Gascoigne after his ‘ refuelling ’ comments about his star midfielder .
26 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 .
27 They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . "
28 Similarly , a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation .
29 " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , …
30 ‘ 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 .
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