Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prost ( right ) is worried that he could be penalised for being involved in ostensibly innocent race clashes |
| 2 | If E. K. Chambers could be suspected of being dull and pedantic , what were Fox 's qualities ? |
| 3 | Farms could be accumulated without being enclosed , and individual yeomen could , by exchanging strips in the open fields with their neighbours , consolidate their holdings and thereby create a unit which was easier to work . |
| 4 | If the passage of the deposit is not prohibited , then it could be lost by being passed to an individual or a company that goes bankrupt or becomes insolvent before completion . |
| 5 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 6 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 7 | The other girls could be forgiven for being depressed — after all , they were facing a racing dynamo , who seemed indestructible , regardless of weather conditions . |
| 8 | Alongside the emphasis on knowledge , great faith was also placed in the power of science to discover the laws of the physical universe , society and even human personality itself , so that the world and individuals could be improved by being controlled . |
| 9 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 10 | A great many anthropogenic wastes — pollution by any other name — could be rehabilitated by being treated as a positive resource only awaiting an inventive ecological design . |
| 11 | YEARS ago Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 12 | YEARS ago , Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 13 | Spalding 's stages could be criticised for being somewhat vacuous . |
| 14 | Where the question of a sexual motive is avoided , either the defence recognise that their client could be disadvantaged by being typed as a sex maniac and the prosecution may realise that such a line of questioning may unnecessarily complicate a case , or there may seem little scope for placing the blame elsewhere . |
| 15 | The Croaking Gourami could be accused of being rather a colourless drab specimen . |