Example sentences of "[conj] it could [verb] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 3 | The donor could have been ‘ P. ’ or it could have been the two last-mentioned ladies or ‘ P. ’ could be the first-name initial of Madame Vidal . |
| 4 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 5 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 6 | ‘ So it could have been the headmaster who — ? ’ |
| 7 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 8 | It was logical to conclude the young fop was the assassin but it could have been the young page or , indeed , a complete stranger . |