Example sentences of "[v-ing] could be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nationalizing for a specific period — length depending upon the expected time needed for rehabilitation and the severity of the offence — and placing public-appointed directors to the board with a duty to inform the public and advise the remaining corporate directors , the chances of recidivating could be reduced considerably . |
| 2 | Macari may find he has to sell before he can buy , so rebuilding could be a lengthy process . |
| 3 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 4 | From this perspective , the rate of ageing could be determined solely by level of exposure to damaging influences : the process would be inevitable , and in need of no evolutionary explanation . |
| 5 | In Scotland about half of the 600 boats currently operating could be severely affected . |
| 6 | Slogging could be the cause . |
| 7 | All right , so you 're saying then that the person that you 're interviewing could be doing , take a stopwatch with them , just to thirty seconds answers . |
| 8 | Friends kind enough to offer to do the ironing or a bit of hoovering could be alarmed by cries of , ‘ No , no ! |
| 9 | It is not a large effect and may be ignored , or alternatively some form of shielding could be provided . |
| 10 | For example , ‘ the weather forecast is n't good , it 's going to rain' could be repeated as ‘ I 've brought my umbrella with me because we may have showers . ’ |
| 11 | The team modelled the relationship for the Sherwood reservoir so data collected during drilling could be used to automatically generate estimates of permeability . |
| 12 | In 27 patients ( 96.4% ) bleeding could be successfully managed by injection of norepinephrine and polidocanol , in repeated sessions if needed . |
| 13 | Alexander , always a connoisseur of garments , realised that Frederica had changed her style , that the clothes the young creatures were wearing could be described as a parody of the clothes Frederica had worn at their age , and that Frederica 's new style was not unrelated to this shift . |
| 14 | Cattle stealing could be stopped , but some administrators had reservations . |
| 15 | Participation and prototyping could be used independently in some applications and in others it may be appropriate to use the conventional approach modified by incorporating these tools and techniques . |
| 16 | In rural areas of America , the young men learned that after a religious revival meeting , the young women attending could be led unprotesting into the fields and bushes behind the evangelical tent . |
| 17 | An upper house provided for representation on a regional basis , which ANC officials were quoted as saying could be combined with a system of representation according to political party . |
| 18 | No amount of theologizing could be a substitute for mathematical analysis . |
| 19 | Any pooch found straying could be matched to its owners by the Highland capital 's two dog wardens using scanners . |
| 20 | Recognise that er , the implications of that but you 're right , co coercing could be er an adve a rather negative end of influence . |
| 21 | While expressing relief that what is emerging could be worse , it is not the promised land ; it is just about approaching the standard of some of the good practice which preceded it . |
| 22 | It did seem , however , that a series of needs which were surfacing could be responded to and change enhanced through the creation of an industry/school partnership . |
| 23 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 24 | The regulations will be policed by Environmental Health officers and factory inspectors , and any employers not complying could be prosecuted . |
| 25 | The voice-over device ( their spoken thoughts ) only works intermittently because much of what they are thinking could be spoken . |
| 26 | If footswitching could be sorted out for these then the covers and pub band scene could well be awash with Marshall S80s . |
| 27 | John Ostrom points out that most dinosaur nasal passages bypassed the mouth cavity , so chewing could be done without breathing , very typical of creatures with high respiratory rates ; i.e. endotherms . |
| 28 | And the dancers dancing , the pipers piping , drummers drumming and lords a-leaping could be persuaded to perform for charity . |
| 29 | A venture you are planning could be fraught with disaster . |
| 30 | It would not be an expensive or difficult matter to make a working model of the proposed lift to a scale of say ¼ inch to a foot and upon this model the whole arrangement and system of working could be shewn with model barges and proportionate tackle . |