Example sentences of "[noun] could be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as though his words could be coming true . |
| 2 | SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL : Your child could be suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her teachers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The deaths can not be medically accounted for and environmentalists fear that costal erosion could be releasing buried poisons from the site . |
| 5 | SCOTTISH beef farmers could be offering live , prime cattle to new customers from a range of European Community countries by the end of the year if their governments could be persuaded to lift their ban on imports of British animals . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I told them my brother could be lying dead somewhere and they said they did n't care and that I was mucking them about , ’ said 18-year-old Joanne , of Stoneleigh , Surrey , yesterday . |