Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could have be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 500 yards distance it was just possible that we could have been mistaken . |
| 2 | Just over half ( 55% ) of all applicants said that something could have been done to help them . |
| 3 | It would have been nice to have had somebody so that they could have been turned on together by the faint giggles and murmured conversation coming from upstairs . |
| 4 | This may partly reflect the fact that many aspects of the situation ( road layout , signs , shops etc. ) were deliberately excluded on the basis that they could have been obtained from previous local knowledge . |
| 5 | Some of the questions were so easy that they could have been answered by a 10-year-old , let alone a student of 16 . |
| 6 | There was consternation that they could have been overlooked on a day commemorating such a vital part of British history . |
| 7 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 8 | Although there are no known examples in Britain , it is interesting to note the number of stones bearing the monogram built into the churches , suggesting that they could have been taken from the pagan monuments and re-used . |
| 9 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 10 | The only criticism is that it could have been made available earlier to complement the often impractical tomes which emerged from other quarters . |
| 11 | Dornberg frowned at the message , so ill-written in clumsy pencilled capitals that it could have been scrawled by a child . |
| 12 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 13 | For he was going to be burdened always with the conviction that it could have been avoided . |
| 14 | Even Karelius , a Beethoven admirer , felt that it could have been improved , though to be fair his attention had often been distracted by Louise Müller and audience reaction to her . |
| 15 | It is possible that it could have been left with the registry in this office and that it reached the case file as a result , but I can not be sure . |
| 16 | While his arguments about capital punishment are still of great relevance , it now seems rather odd that it could have been thought necessary to have to argue against the use of torture for extracting confessions . |
| 17 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 18 | That is to say neither do I believe , in the terms of classical Christology , that Jesus of Nazareth could have had , as well as his human nature , a divine nature ; nor do I believe that he could have been raised from the dead , so acquiring uniqueness through God 's act of raising him . |
| 19 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Mr Aycliffe , have you not thought that he could have been imprisoned ? ’ |
| 21 | The possibility that the unfortunate young gentleman was waylaid seems inescapable ; he was , however , in possession of little , if any , money to attract the attention of would-be malefactors , and that he could have been attacked in broad daylight , in the middle of a city the size of Vienna , appears to us virtually incredible . ’ ' |