Example sentences of "they [verb] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these chapters contained at least some description of how the concepts and techniques they described could be put to practical use to build up market knowledge . |
| 2 | They plan to march through Banbury led by a procession of funeral bearers to signify what they say could be the death of the hospital . |
| 3 | However , the deliberate positioning of the doors outside the fences which they straddled could be seen from an agriculturalist 's point of view , to assist the separation of animals from domestic areas . |
| 4 | Mr Michael Fallon MP and his Labour rival , Mr Alan Milburn , said it was important that Darlington kept control of its own hospital services after health unions expressed concern over what they feared could be a ‘ hidden agenda ’ of merger plans . |
| 5 | Each of the practices reported some improvement in the provision of hospital care or practice services that they felt could be attributed to the acquisition of fundholding status . |
| 6 | And the experience they gathered could be channelled to us , keeping the New Internationalist in touch with the experience of peasants and ordinary working people . |
| 7 | They 've found a gene which they think could be passed on by parents to their children . |
| 8 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 9 | That none of them had could be a bad sign or a good . |