Example sentences of "could be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There must be risks that there could be moves afoot in the not too distant future for the closure of the Petersfield Court . |
| 2 | Could be loads , could n't it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's possible there could be conflicts between them so we felt it was important to have discussions now . ’ |
| 4 | yes the , the commission does n't seemed to of addressed itself to , to , the only question it seemed to of addressed itself to are whether the criteria objective , erm , that there could be reasons when it takes decisions and erm there should be an appeal procedure |
| 5 | They could be professional managers or they could be doctors or nurses . |
| 6 | They might not be aware that er there is , you know , that there could be customers who |
| 7 | Dening criticised the inconsistency and failure to clarify objectives on the part of the United States ; he conceded that there could be difficulties over Chinese representation in talks between the powers , given the collapse of the Kuomintang and the imminent proclamation formally of the communist government in Peking . |
| 8 | If you were to tell the police , or if you were to go after them yourself , there could be difficulties . |
| 9 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 10 | Are they coming onto your support workers calling on the families at this time to help them erm because this will be the time when the families will need help and also naturally the residents who are normally at the centre , having got used to the centre , as we know , there could be difficulties there and I 'd like to have the please . |
| 11 | They could be antibodies , or DNA ‘ probes ’ which bind to stretches of DNA that are unique to the target organisms . |
| 12 | I would hope that 's a hope I would hope that enough women who wanted to could actually be in parliament if that 's what they wanted , could be runners , could be models . |
| 13 | Very rarely is the message sent that exciting young females could be scientists or technologists . |
| 14 | You could be ages . |
| 15 | Could be ages to grow like that , now it 's grown a real good hedge , in fact no it ai n't a good real hedge it 's got massive great gaping holes in it |
| 16 | However , they also imply that there could be objects that have always travelled at faster-than light speeds . |
| 17 | The logical objects might be components of the presentation structure of the document , such as section headings , or they could be objects that relate to the topic of the document , e.g. book titles that are referenced in the document , part numbers , or , in a document about programming , variable names . |
| 18 | The earth is fairly soft after the rain and if the murderer came by car or motorcycle there could be tyre-marks . |
| 19 | ‘ But that means that all the sheep could be wolves in disguise . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps we could be soldiers here . |
| 21 | They could be copies , but they look real enough . |
| 22 | It is possible they could be copies of a well known make called Valentino . |
| 23 | There there could be weavers amongst them . |
| 24 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 25 | So there could be cases where officers on particularly dangerous assignments , need to be armed and in which case , they will be armed . |
| 26 | And repeating the well-tried lie he told them that they too could be gods and would never die . |
| 27 | On the other hand , examples like ( 33 ) could be responses to questions containing what ? |
| 28 | There could be crashes . |
| 29 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 30 | I had hoped we could be friends . |