Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt could be made to reverse this by increasing the dietary intake of vitamin C , but we have shown in a region of Venezuela with a high incidence of gastric cancer that oral vitamin C supplementation alone is insufficient to increase gastric juice ascorbate concentrations in the presence of H pylori infection . |
| 2 | There are two obvious moves which could be made to counter this argument . |
| 3 | At subsequent meetings efforts could be made to reduce this quota further . |
| 4 | If it was considered that a parent was fabricating symptoms and manipulating recorded data a decision could be made to discuss this with the parent and family doctor . |
| 5 | The chosen lexicon or word list must be represented in computer memory , but there are numerous methods which could be employed to do this , in order that it can easily be searched . |
| 6 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 7 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 8 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 9 | A potential criterion for ordering the data would be to choose that order which maximises the consistency , and the simulated annealing algorithm described earlier could be adapted to do this . |
| 10 | We are therefore very worried to learn that EC Structural Funds could be allocated to help this potentially very damaging scheme become a reality . |
| 11 | No one could be persuaded to attempt this feat until Roger offered the pupil a monetary inducement . |
| 12 | Certainly , recent suggestions from the USA that commercials are ( in some sense ) just as effective when they are abbreviated from 30 to 20 or even 10 seconds could be taken to confirm this . |
| 13 | So could be designed to allow this to make a profit by empting out their attic , without the requirement of registration once the insurers and professional traders was registered . |
| 14 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 15 | What calculations could be performed to extract this information ? |
| 16 | Only a family member could be trusted to do this . |
| 17 | Once again , the parable of the blind men and the elephant could be used to illustrate this point . |