Example sentences of "[pers pn] could be [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could be starting to be having trouble with your thyroid gland . |
| 2 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 3 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 4 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 5 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , they could be said to be implicit justifications of an almost fully formulated nature , in that they provide reasons for the existence of the monarchy and its ceremonial occasions . |
| 7 | But they could be seen to be so " from below " as well as " from above " . |
| 8 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 9 | Alternatively , they could be considered to be protected by the design right as a configuration when all the components are mounted onto the board . |
| 10 | Progressive emergence of partnership forces , combined with provisional intentions and priorities , will clear the ground for tasks and levels of partnership at which they could be set to be identified . |
| 11 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 12 | It could be said to be retrogressive — a return ( retreat ? ) to narrow Victorian child-rearing values — to be writing guidelines on how to encourage obedience and overcome disobedience in the late 1980s . |
| 13 | As a research project , it could be said to be one of the ‘ old-fashioned ’ kind ; it had to be done on a shoestring . |
| 14 | If the passage of the deposit is not prohibited , then it could be lost by being passed to an individual or a company that goes bankrupt or becomes insolvent before completion . |
| 15 | The Commission says that , if the Community decides to build the NET machine , it could be expected to be built on a Community site . |
| 16 | The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him . |
| 17 | It seems rather grandiose to label a talk with a colleague in the same office or department as an ‘ interview ’ , but in some ways it could be considered to be one , especially if our colleague is an expert in the field in which we ourselves have become interested . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Amiss helpfully , ‘ he could be pretending to be deaf and dumb . |
| 19 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 20 | Prost ( right ) is worried that he could be penalised for being involved in ostensibly innocent race clashes |
| 21 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't tell Simon he could be going to be a father . |