Example sentences of "could [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , each dug-in group of British soldiers could expect to be facing the same dug-in group of Germans for many months . |
| 2 | With far more reason than Harold Wilson in 1964 , she could claim to be running ( mutatis mutandis ) a Bolshevik revolution with a Tsarist Cabinet . |
| 3 | They could claim to be defending democracy while simultaneously denouncing the very tendencies and aspirations which had led their less sophisticated predecessors to condemn or criticize democracy as such . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |