Example sentences of "is [adj] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone is interested could they please contact me at |
| 2 | The fact that he is under-age could be a problem but a false beard , grey wig and strap-on paunch should be enough to fool any referee likely to officiate at an Athletico game . |
| 3 | Finally , and this is a suggestion on my own , although actually I discovered afterwards it was also made by somebody else , erm but it does seem in many ways er erm an obvious interpretation , is this could be the background also to post-natal depression . |
| 4 | Erm if Z X equals Z Y is when that 's the maximum , then Z X times Z Y is either could be put down as Z X times Z X or Z Y times Z Y cos they 're both the same . |
| 5 | Whether heterozygosity is protective could have an important bearing on genetic counselling in this disease now that presymptomatic detection of this and other mutations in the prion protein gene is possible . |
| 6 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 7 | THIRD DIVISION Maidstone United became the first casualty club of the new season yesterday — and the fear is more could follow . |
| 8 | One factor that is important could be classified as ‘ territorial disruption ’ . |
| 9 | Posters also teach young people how to develop a sense of erm they also make life much more fun more interesting and erm this is great contrast with Harlow and an urban area like Greater London area where as the report by erm in er the report the report on observation in London you know did n't mention the fact that publicity is of course is much more much greater than the London area erm and erm er one thing I see is missing could er er the reason is we found er the film society we ca n't advertise our events very well because of the restrictive bylaws on advertising poster advertising in Harlow I wonder if something could be done about this ? |
| 10 | If the erm Homeworks experiment is successful could we see many more stores turning over to that that format and that that or will you consider converting the whole chain or might you just have a separate chain called Homesworks ? |
| 11 | The extent to which the first proposition is true could only be determined by interviewing all of the successful Ph D students , and all of their supervisors , and attempting to reconcile two , possibly conflicting , sets of answers . |
| 12 | In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists . |
| 13 | The King is dead could be heard all over and everyone knew within minutes . |