Example sentences of "they could be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although increases in pay have tailed off , Mr Page said : ‘ Professional firms are not as aggressive as they could be on cutting salaries . |
| 2 | If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day . |
| 3 | So to be able to the sweepstake in the past another church and they could be , they could be on the interest you know , the amount towards running costs such as this . |
| 4 | They could be on their dinner . |
| 5 | They could be worth a lot of money one day . |
| 6 | ‘ They could be worth a million for all the difference it would make , ’ said Reid . |
| 7 | They 'll be valued soon , but it 's thought they could be worth around ten thousand pounds . |
| 8 | On top of that , if the FA see the Davis case as a precedent , they could be without their England striker for a long spell , while Wright could find his international claims weakened . |
| 9 | Enthused by the tantalising clues that Palmer had unearthed they gradually realised that they could be onto something big here . |
| 10 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 11 | They could be down Road . |
| 12 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 13 | They had decided to pray to Jesus , asking that they could die too so that they could be with their Mum who they missed so much . |
| 14 | They told me to keep in touch and call them if I felt they could be of assistance . |
| 15 | They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances . |
| 16 | They could be of particular interest to those fearing punitive investment and income tax rates under a Labour government . |
| 17 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 18 | However , because of the immense potential for the integrated ( ie raster/ASCII/vector ) systems that were under development , the point was made that the strategy could be to plan their eventual use for those functions where they could be of value . |
| 19 | They could be of further use if Treasury chiefs are sent packing . |
| 20 | In addition , he used any contacts he had in the services , or the Government , in case they could be of help . |
| 21 | ‘ All those birds are as common as dirt around here , but I guess if they could be of some use to you , that 's great . ’ |
| 22 | ( On Feb. 28 the UN Security Council had warned Iraq of " serious consequences " after ballistic experts were refused permission to destroy Scud missile equipment , on the grounds that they could be of use in civilian industry — see p. 38788 . ) |
| 23 | The precise nature of neutrophil chemoattractants in these disorders is unknown and they could be of a diverse nature including microbial , chemical ( including prostanoids ) or indeed in ulcerative colitis the damaged colonocytes themselves . |
| 24 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 25 | They could be at Buck House or , even worse , at Balmoral but she wanted to take the kids and her bald boyfriend to St Tropez . |
| 26 | TWO youngsters who were strangled after warnings that they could be at risk were put on a council child protection register in June , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | They could be at a skipping game in the playground . |
| 28 | Drug users say they could be at increased risk from AIDS after a decision to stop giving them free clean syringes . |
| 29 | Well we believe that they could be at or below the three hundred and seventy eight pounds . |
| 30 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |