Example sentences of "could be [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could be professional managers or they could be doctors or nurses . |
| 2 | Very rarely is the message sent that exciting young females could be scientists or technologists . |
| 3 | Though , granted , he could be friend or enemy to the new man . |
| 4 | In addition to part-time study , there could be vacation or weekend courses at a regional level , and country-wide summer and winter schools , after the successful pattern pioneered by the Open University . |
| 5 | He looked at the bubbles intently : they could be frogspawn or snow just fallen , or clouds , or millions of tiny crystals , almost invisible . |
| 6 | The latter could be anecdotes or opinions , jokes or personal experiences . |
| 7 | Er , colleagues , before we turn to a period of , er , rule amendments and general motions , could I just advise congress that a pair of spectacles have been handed in er , Vision Express , look like , well they could be ladies or gents , multi-sexual these days , colleagues . |
| 8 | we just have a recap , okay , if there 's any congenital amalgamation particularly in the central nervous system , things like spina bifida , hydrocephalus , problems like that and any underlying infection or feeding difficulties and the feeding difficulties could be cause or effect , we 've got a baby that 's erm , who 's temperature is dropping , it 's getting more sleepy and erm it 's difficult to feed and if a baby 's not feeding properly it wo n't be able to warm itself up . |
| 9 | Identifying the word as trespass sooner , that is before the /p/ is heard , would be inefficient because mistakes could be made ( for example , choosing trespass when you have only heard tres could be wrong — the word could be trestle or tress . ) |
| 10 | There could be drama or role-play . |
| 11 | This meant they could be midwives or nurses , but not doctors . |
| 12 | B could be Berne or Basle — Andropulos would know , of course . |
| 13 | The mock load could be ammunition or supplies for ground troops … or emergency aid for refugees . |
| 14 | This could be valve or transistor . |
| 15 | ‘ On the one hand , the England game could be make or break . |