Example sentences of "[pers pn] could be [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could be tied up until quite late , ’ he told her , ‘ but as soon as I 'm free I 'll come round to your hotel . ’ |
| 2 | I could be murdered here and no one would know . |
| 3 | But 90 per cent of them could be prevented actually if we had better working and environmental conditions or were n't so stressed and needed to smoke and drink to kill the pain of daily life . |
| 4 | ‘ If that happens then she could be laid up and out of circulation for a very long time . |
| 5 | One moment she could be smiling tenderly as she fed the animals , the next filled with anger and as dangerous as a tiger at bay . |
| 6 | ‘ You could be picking up where he left off . |
| 7 | Buy it in a bottle and you could be paying more than fifty times that . |
| 8 | Right when you could be going up and down the gears and using whatever is appropriate |
| 9 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 10 | If the bizarre characters were favoured by female choice , or in male competition , they could be maintained even if they decreased the viability of their bearers : the advantage in sexual success could compensate the disadvantage in viability . |
| 11 | This part of the task is very slow and time-consuming and if more than one plate is being constructed then they could be clamped together and all be drilled at the same time . |
| 12 | Support personnel worked in areas adjacent to the production floor , so that they could be contacted instantly when required , and through constant contact keep up to date with the processes which they served . |
| 13 | He wanted to do a Beatle medley and for that we made four cut-out caricatures of The Beatles in hardboard and painted them and then fitted them on frames and easels so that they could be stood up and moved around . |
| 14 | The loss of speed from their rougher bottoms was compensated by the fact that they could be sailed harder than wooden ships in blowing weather . |
| 15 | It appears to me that any articles published in a program probably would n't be the ones with , well shall we say ‘ less than polite ’ , references to other clubs/players … and even if they were they could be censored so as to be acceptable to the general public . |
| 16 | They used to come a day or two beforehand , you see , so they could be settled down and then race . |
| 17 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 18 | He brushed aside charges that the Government had reneged on its election promises last year by comparing the Government borrowing crisis with the early years of the Thatcher Government in which , he said , taxes had to rise before they could be brought down after borrowing was stabilised . |
| 19 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 20 | They could be avoided only if the gravitational acceleration were the same everywhere . |
| 21 | I do n't think it could be done today but there was a lamentable lack of security because nobody thought this sort of thing could happen |
| 22 | It could be seen therefore as its own safeguard provided by the people against a particular form of exploitation of the people ; and hence as something to be excepted on pragmatic grounds from the general case for nationalisation or municipalisation . |
| 23 | It could be scraped off and used for frying and baking . |
| 24 | It is clear that it could be borne only if society itself were expanding in wealth and numbers . |
| 25 | It could be farmed out or forgotten . |
| 26 | I can not imagine how it could be revised so as to be suitable for publication anywhere . |
| 27 | It could be argued however that according to the theory of bureaucracy the Central Bank would operate monetary policy to suit its own needs , and also that monetary policy ought to be operated by a body that is accountable to the electorate ( a central bank is not , although the Bundesbank does not appear to suffer from the above problems ) . |
| 28 | It could be argued also that the nuclear family has facilitated the improvement of women 's status within the home . |
| 29 | It could be argued then that the basic problem is one of poverty . |
| 30 | And sort of , I think it shows a lot the timelessness of , of costume and clothes , because this could be worn , I mean I 'm , you 'd get a few looks , but I mean it could be worn today and it 's quite , it 's awfully Laura Ashley is n't it |