Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had no idea that business trips could be like this . ’ |
| 2 | She said , ‘ You do realise that these designs could be worth thousands of pounds , do n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | FRIED 100-year-old sea monster in breadcrumbs could be on Scottish menus next year , depending on a £50,000 research project into deep water fish stocks west of the Hebrides . |
| 4 | Since many signals could be of the STOP and GO type , complexity would emerge because the cells ' responses would be determined by their past history . |
| 5 | Other kids could be with their mothers all the time . |
| 6 | Too close a contact with leading journalists could be of more benefit to the media than it is to you . |
| 7 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 8 | Lifts could be on the wrong floor at the wrong moment . |
| 9 | Around 4,000 older homes could be at risk — the problem is to identify which concrete is about to crumble and which is sound . |
| 10 | In 1974 VHF radio was introduced to one-man trams and buses , so that crews could be in touch with the controller and he could contact the line inspectors . |
| 11 | Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar . |
| 12 | To this end , it has produced advertisements suggesting that more lives could be at risk if people switched to smaller cars . |
| 13 | People 's lives could be at stake , or at the very least their futures . |
| 14 | ULSTER 'S biggest civil servant union has demanded changes to election ballot papers , warning that voters ' lives could be at risk . |
| 15 | LIVES could be at risk if a traffic calming scheme goes ahead , it was claimed last night . |
| 16 | More environmentally sensitive areas could be on the way — if agriculture minister John Gummer can persuade the Treasury to give him the cash |
| 17 | At last November 's election in North Carolina , Senator Jesse Helms showed how emotive an issue quotas could be among white voters . |
| 18 | These caring visits could be by neighbours , friends or relatives , whose visits could be to check that the sufferer was all right , to give emotional support , or to provide help with personal or household tasks . |
| 19 | Contracts to US companies could be worth $25 billion . |
| 20 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 21 | In Nottingham the Hucknall and Robin Hood lines could be among the first to be ear-marked for sharing . |
| 22 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 23 | The organization believes that the new plans could be in breach of European law requiring full environmental impact studies to be carried out . |
| 24 | If legislation were introduced early in the next session of parliament ( beginning in November 1991 ) , the first of the new authorities could be in place by April 1994 , and local authorities would be consulted on the basis that the new tax could be in place in 1993-94 . |
| 25 | Financial reasons could be of more general importance . |
| 26 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
| 27 | Member states could be in breach of these duties where they had enacted legislation requiring or encouraging undertakings to act contrary to Articles 85 or 86 or reinforcing the effects of such conduct . |
| 28 | Other sponsorships could be for travel or study overseas or for specific research or a long-term project . |
| 29 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 30 | Two of the Tories ’ West Country seats could be in danger . |