Example sentences of "you could be forgive [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IME happens to be the Estonian word for ‘ miracle ’ — exactly what is required , you could be forgiven for feeling , if today 's designs are to become reality . |
| 2 | Wander around the centre , and you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole of Leeds was built in Victorian days . |
| 3 | You could be forgiven for remembering John Gould as a brilliant painter of birds — that 's exactly what he would have wanted . |
| 4 | For readers already familiar with the transmogrification of Sheffield from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to something altogether more ‘ pragmatic ’ , you could be forgiven for believing that the drama unfolding around the boardroom table was just one more step along this route , with committed socialists playing the stock market with the best of them . |
| 5 | You could be forgiven for thinking that a book entitled The Mind of God was a work of theology , but you would be wrong . |
| 6 | Menaggio is a super lakeside resort that feels so untouristy that you could be forgiven for thinking it was just a typical Italian village . |
| 7 | When you wheel your trolley around the supermarket , you could be forgiven for thinking that our basic foods have n't changed for years . |
| 8 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 9 | YOU COULD be forgiven for not having heard of the Treaty of TIatelolco . |
| 10 | Boogie 's descriptions of the sounds are very accurate , too ; the ‘ British ’ settings really are very good indeed , and on occasion you could be forgiven for thinking you were indeed playing through a Bletchley-built stack . |
| 11 | If you believe in cycle theories , you could be forgiven for thinking a big one is due about now : the last big quakes have occurred in 1633 , 1703 , 1782 , 1853 and 1923 . |
| 12 | ‘ From the outside , you could be forgiven for thinking this whole episode will become very messy . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ From the outside , you could be forgiven for thinking this whole episode will become very messy . ’ |
| 14 | Ten years later , and you could be forgiven for thinking you 'd stumbled into Liberace 's Grotto . |
| 15 | He was just non compos mentis most of the time and there were times when you could be forgiven for forgetting that he was a woefully sick man . |
| 16 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 17 | YOU could be forgiven for thinking that pop star Yazz is off to study . |
| 18 | So when politicians and farmers tell us there 's absolutely no risk , you could be forgiven for wanting to make up your own mind — especially if you 've got children . |
| 19 | You could be forgiven for thinking this might present Olivetti with a conflict of interest but the company sees it differently . |
| 20 | You could be forgiven for thinking the only ‘ grand challenge ’ IBM Corp faces is turning its profit and loss account around . |
| 21 | Well , actually you could be forgiven for thinking that , and actually you 'd be wrong . |
| 22 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 23 | In fact you could be forgiven for thinking that SuperCalc was just like Lotus 1-2-3 , except that the backslash key menus run along the bottom of the screen instead of the top ! |
| 24 | Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . |
| 25 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |
| 26 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 27 | The dreaming spires , Morse 's beat where you could be forgiven for thinking there are more murders per square foot than any other city in Britain . |
| 28 | Watching intrepid explorer Michael Brisbane force his way through a dense thicket of bamboo , you could be forgiven for thinking we 're in Nepal . |