Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that , for anything I could measure to be considered part of a memory trace or engram , it needed to show the following properties . |
| 2 | ‘ Or I could pretend to be someone else . ’ |
| 3 | Well I could pretend to be you . |
| 4 | Or I could decide to be supremely inconsiderate and have my baby at home . |
| 5 | And then the baby , and then not the baby , but there was an us I could feel to be there every day when I woke up . |
| 6 | I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist . |
| 7 | Other British manufacturing industries which could expect to be hit by the changes include car tyres , paper goods , ceramics , glassware , pipes , and CDs and audio tapes . |
| 8 | But try to channel your activities to the canine crowd so as to avoid a show-down which could prove to be a great embarrassment . |
| 9 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 10 | The life expired boiler from No. 5 , ‘ Moel Siabod ’ is set up to test equipment and techniques which could prove to be the saviour of steam . |
| 11 | This is admittedly an extreme case since Germany has passed from the , in theory , most complete pan-German political unity under Hitler to a situation where at least two states coexisted which could claim to be all or part of the German nation . |
| 12 | In so far as the general picture is intelligible , it appears that we are dealing with a group of warlords in the north , some of whom could claim to be upholding Roman jurisdiction . |
| 13 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
| 14 | There , she could pretend to be the housewife she was n't , with the same concerns as Jimmy Young 's daytime audience . |
| 15 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 16 | She could pretend to be Celia , say she was unable to visit . |
| 17 | With far more reason than Harold Wilson in 1964 , she could claim to be running ( mutatis mutandis ) a Bolshevik revolution with a Tsarist Cabinet . |
| 18 | She was a smartly dressed woman , different from the other women in our district , but then she could afford to be because they were very comfortably off . |
| 19 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 20 | Dora , naturally , was in good spirits and with Fortune on her side she could afford to be magnanimous . |
| 21 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 22 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 23 | Some other early Macedonians , the sort who could afford to be buried in graves with inscriptions , were also plainly Greek . |
| 24 | They were held in the open , before a portable altar , and three bishops were present , in gold and crimson and purple and white , as well as all the churchmen who could contrive to be there , and several thousand people from Fife and Angus and Lennox and Strathearn and even further away . |
| 25 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 26 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 27 | List at least five things that you could do to be a bargain for your partner . |
| 28 | ‘ You could get to be very popular back in the city-states , Doc . ’ |
| 29 | For instance you could learn to be a , a motor driver , you could learned to be an electrician , you could learn to be an engineer , you could learn to be anything . |
| 30 | For instance you could learn to be a , a motor driver , you could learned to be an electrician , you could learn to be an engineer , you could learn to be anything . |