Example sentences of "that [pron] could [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I do n't feel that I could be taking too much money out without putting a certain amount back into it |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | She 's consumed by love for Grant and just ca n't grasp the idea that she could be doing something else if he goes out with his mates and , understandably , he resents the way she intrudes on the time he spends with them . ’ |
| 5 | She is canny and determined , and her talent is so special that she could be running her workshop from an oil rig in the North Sea — people would buy her work just the same . |
| 6 | But first of all Brian 's going to talk about some of the outlets and the sort of things that you could be looking for . |
| 7 | In modern timber-frame houses , it is possible that you could be fixing into the timber frame itself and/or plasterboard above the window reveal . |
| 8 | Derelict buildings , old workings , dams and hushes scar the land and everywhere there are the cones of spoil heaps that stretch acre upon acre in some places , so that you feel at times that you could be standing on the surface of the moon . |
| 9 | you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right |
| 10 | Add to all this the price of a well deserved holiday from it all at the end of your final term , and it is quite likely that you could be stretching your finances to the limit . |
| 11 | That you could be doing more . |
| 12 | We 'll look at what you 're currently doing and we also suggest to you something that you could be doing . |
| 13 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 14 | Like you , we are committed to the NHS , and there is an enormous reserve of goodwill that you could be harnessing ; just show some evidence that you appreciate the nature of the problems we are facing , and we can all work together to establish the quality service that our patients rightly demand . |
| 15 | But there was only two of us and the firm did not want to keep you on , realizing that you could be coming up for fifteen , they they finished you . |
| 16 | " You know , I think that you could be heading for a very serious depression . " |
| 17 | Money that you could be putting to work . |
| 18 | One argument against d-i-y carpet-laying is the fact that you could be putting your rights as a consumer at risk if a problem arises with the carpet at a later date . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ There 's a suspicion that we could be getting into a mess . |
| 20 | ‘ It just seems a little weird that we could be playing opposite each other in a semi-final of a big competition . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 23 | Diplomats say western countries are worried , however , that they could be clinging too long to a leader whose domestic support is fading . |
| 24 | He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't . |
| 25 | Prominent figures in the British art world are naturally concerned by the possibility that they could be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Saatchi Collection . |
| 26 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 27 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 28 | The Government 's most favourable estimate for renewable power is that it could be providing 10 per cent by 2025 . |
| 29 | They had been tipped off that he could be staying with friends in South-west London . |
| 30 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |