Example sentences of "[pron] could be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could be days working my way to the front of that crowd . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is apparently particularly difficult to convince councillors of the justification and effectiveness of these services , which could be life-lines to a minority of rural inhabitants . |
| 3 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 4 | There are a lot of barriers that exist between people and training some of them could be things like they do n't have access to child care it could be they lack confidence so we go for support and we can offer training which is local we can offer language support . |
| 5 | Just if she 'll , you know , just if she could be friends with me still , you know , and that ? |
| 6 | It 's said John Wayne started his acting career as an extra , so when you next watch Inspector Morse , look out for the people of Oxford who could be stars of the making . |
| 7 | ‘ You could be triplets . ’ |
| 8 | You could be ages . |
| 9 | You could be miles away from the facility . |
| 10 | It really is very odd — why , you could be twins . |
| 11 | The two of you could be twins . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps we could be soldiers here . |
| 13 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 14 | I had hoped we could be friends . |
| 15 | ‘ You think we could be friends ? |
| 16 | But he believes there could be benefits for other DTI units in adopting OSO 's integrated approach to industry support . |
| 17 | Setting an example : John d'Ancona believes there could be benefits for other trade units in adopting OSO 's integrated approach to industry support |
| 18 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 19 | So I mean yo , there could be things in it that it could be left there , if there 's , but you started |
| 20 | There could be crashes . |
| 21 | However , they also imply that there could be objects that have always travelled at faster-than light speeds . |
| 22 | What is much more interesting , I have already suggested , is the idea that there could be patterns of behaviour which human beings are entirely capable of wanting and indeed , on an individual or limited scale , of achieving , but which for biological reasons are bound to be psychologically costly , or confined to a small group of otherwise unusual individuals , or otherwise bound to fail as general social institutions . |
| 23 | They maintain that there could be circumstances in which disobedience is justified even though the law itself does not admit that it is . |
| 24 | There could be tears yet . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's possible there could be conflicts between them so we felt it was important to have discussions now . ’ |
| 26 | The earth is fairly soft after the rain and if the murderer came by car or motorcycle there could be tyre-marks . |
| 27 | They might not be aware that er there is , you know , that there could be customers who |
| 28 | Dening criticised the inconsistency and failure to clarify objectives on the part of the United States ; he conceded that there could be difficulties over Chinese representation in talks between the powers , given the collapse of the Kuomintang and the imminent proclamation formally of the communist government in Peking . |
| 29 | If you were to tell the police , or if you were to go after them yourself , there could be difficulties . |
| 30 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |