Example sentences of "could be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 150,000 children are already educated in grant-maintained schools but , if the prediction is correct , two thirds of all state school pupils in England and Wales could be under the new system . |
| 2 | With a bit more luck , train services willing , she could be in and out of Mariánské Láznë today , and , even if she had to fit in a visit to that garage near Františkovy Láznë , by nightfall she could be across the Czechoslovakian border and on her way home to England . |
| 3 | The racks could be of the usual ‘ Sheffield ’ type . |
| 4 | It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills . |
| 5 | Just how tough it could be for the independent producer is evident from the history of Minerva Films . |
| 6 | It could be on the other side of the island or asleep or waiting to leap out the water and swallow them whole . |
| 7 | The green section could be on the far left ( upper panel of Fig. 2 ) or the far right ( lower panel of Fig. 2 ) . |
| 8 | BRITISH RAIL believes it could be on the right lines for attracting more passengers in Cleveland . |
| 9 | If backing for the research is forthcoming , voice activated cash dispensers could be on the High Street within two years . |
| 10 | The largest accounting firms could be on the receiving end of proposed new penalties to prevent abuse of market power including fines of up to 10% of turnover — if they are found to be using predatory pricing . |
| 11 | Next Saturday , Jackson could be on the receiving end of a hammering from Christie , when the pair meet over 60m at the national indoor championships in Birmingham . |
| 12 | Lifts could be on the wrong floor at the wrong moment . |
| 13 | ‘ Could be at the other end . |
| 14 | but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ? |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't picture it , ’ she said , ‘ but it could be at the far end from the flat . ’ |
| 16 | Mind you , Barnet could be in the European Cup by then . |
| 17 | To show how adult even a major Fox movie could be in the late sixties , the credit sequence has the two lovebirds in bed together , cutely sleeping side by side and back to back . |
| 18 | He could be in the right place at the right time when top jobs come up for grabs next summer . |
| 19 | Brave as could be in the cocked-up invasion of Crete and in the Yugoslavian mountains with Tito , he was still just the sort of awkward squaddie no army likes . |
| 20 | Now he could be in the unfamiliar position of trailing in last … in the race among new MPs to speak in the House . |
| 21 | We made a team to give them the opportunity to work together … to give them the respect … to give them the idea that they could be in the top 50 , not by talking but by working together . |
| 22 | But who knows out of the 20,000 people who visited the event this year , there may be similar people to my brother and me who enjoy music to the full and who could be in the top three next year ! |
| 23 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 24 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 25 | Land by the Shropshire Union Canal in Boughton and further down by the Tower Wharf could be among the prime sites . |
| 26 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |