Example sentences of "could be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's most favourable estimate for renewable power is that it could be providing 10 per cent by 2025 . |
| 2 | I think potentially Professor Lock you could be inventing some work for barristers given that Policy I eleven says provision will not be made . |
| 3 | INDIA could be exporting 10 per cent of the world 's computer software , worth $1000 million each year , by 1986 . |
| 4 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 5 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 6 | Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training . |
| 7 | But Mr Clarke 's belief that travellers prey on people in country areas suggests they could be facing harsh government sanctions |
| 8 | But he could be facing further punishment from the Irish Football Association after making comments about the referee following the game . |
| 9 | THERE are fears that Newcastle 's summer buy Paul Bracewell could be facing another battle to save his career . |
| 10 | picket , or people who come to our lectures that the rainforest campaign , we could be meeting thousands of people we do n't normally see , so we 've tried to produce an information package that will get them interested . |
| 11 | Fields already declared commercial are likely to produce at 100,000 barrels per day ( 5 million tonnes ) and it is predicted that by 1990 the Netherlands could be meeting some 20% of its oil requirements . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In Example 71 the two lower voices have ‘ clanging ’ motifs which evoke the atmosphere of the blacksmith 's forge : Here the ostinatos are unchanging pedal notes , but of course they could be recurring musical designs with changing harmonic potential to give them both a structural and an emotional purpose . |
| 14 | Which means , ’ Cranston concluded , ‘ we could be hunting two murderers not one ; the two hospitallers , Sir Fulke and Rastani , Philippa and her young swain , Colebrooke and one of the guards . ’ |
| 15 | There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him . |
| 16 | Oh I could be using that , that |
| 17 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 18 | While the adults are enjoying their special Christmas drinks with the celebration meal , you could be drinking delicious Louisiana Lemonade , made with frozen raspberries . |
| 19 | Cos that 's the most frustrating thing about fishing is when you 're like you know , you could be wasting that , you , you think to yourself like I could be wasting a whole , there 's not a fish anywhere round here ! |
| 20 | the only thing to bear in mind is that we a little bit careful w with the changing environment we 're working in that it , with it only being pushed forward by direct projects if if nobody else wants it we could be wasting some of our money . |
| 21 | Anyone could be watching this . ’ |
| 22 | Well when when the doctor saw him on a fortnight ago this Friday today , a fortnight ago today the doctor phoned the ward and said have you got a bed I 've got a man here who 's be who is between myself and my curry dinner time and you could be saving two people 's lives my life cos he was so hungry |
| 23 | Act now and you could be enjoying ripe strawberries from your own garden during late June and early July . |
| 24 | I could be buying expensive junk . ’ |
| 25 | Also , if you consider yourself to be faster than the pathfinder board , it is worth starting early , since as you wait for him to reach you , you could be sailing that part faster than him . |
| 26 | The Government could be taking many measures to ensure that refugees who have the right to stay in this country are assimilated and given equal opportunities . |
| 27 | PATIENTS on life-saving drugs could be taking ineffective or dangerous counterfeit products without realising it , as victims of a trade ruse , manufacturers said today . |
| 28 | A girl could be earning 10s a week by the time she was 18 : better pay than most of the other teenage working girls in the CECOS Report , who were usually in low-paid service ( as domestics or laundry-workers ) or low-paid factory workers ( machinists , paper-bag makers ) . |
| 29 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 30 | Four Sasol plants could be producing 10 MTOE by the year 2000 . |