Example sentences of "they could be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleveland Police are warning smokers to beware of offers of cheap cigarettes as they could be part of a hoard stolen from a storeroom in Morgan Drive , Guisborough . |
| 2 | The Seven had given them no real choice : they could be Han or they could be nothing . |
| 3 | They could be professional managers or they could be doctors or nurses . |
| 4 | He looked at the bubbles intently : they could be frogspawn or snow just fallen , or clouds , or millions of tiny crystals , almost invisible . |
| 5 | They could be copies , but they look real enough . |
| 6 | It is possible they could be copies of a well known make called Valentino . |
| 7 | The logical objects might be components of the presentation structure of the document , such as section headings , or they could be objects that relate to the topic of the document , e.g. book titles that are referenced in the document , part numbers , or , in a document about programming , variable names . |
| 8 | The bugs you see at the water surface sound as though they could be Mites , which usually congregate between the surface and the cover glass . |
| 9 | They could be antibodies , or DNA ‘ probes ’ which bind to stretches of DNA that are unique to the target organisms . |
| 10 | But they could be vinegar the next day , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They could be £20 million , they could be £40 million . |
| 12 | She had always sensed the goodness in Sarah Byrne and for Paddy 's sake wished they could be friends . |
| 13 | Er , colleagues , before we turn to a period of , er , rule amendments and general motions , could I just advise congress that a pair of spectacles have been handed in er , Vision Express , look like , well they could be ladies or gents , multi-sexual these days , colleagues . |
| 14 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
| 15 | They could be £20 million , they could be £40 million . |
| 16 | Well , they could be throwbacks to either parent . ’ |
| 17 | This meant they could be midwives or nurses , but not doctors . |
| 18 | So even though they could be sort of twenty five ? |
| 19 | ‘ Unfortunately , by that time they could be HIV positive . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , they could be business contacts . |
| 21 | If only because they could be witnesses . |