Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] could [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CDs average about 55 minutes and could easily have permitted inclusion of all the Tangos recorded by Domingo or all the selections from Wunderlich 's Heliodor Viennese Song recital . |
| 2 | Everton , inspired throughout by Peter Beardsley , killed off the game by romping into a 3–0 lead in 38 minutes and could easily have doubled it . |
| 3 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 4 | It flew within two hundred feet of Gatwick 's South terminal buildings and could easily have hit other aircraft or vehicles . |
| 5 | She had , but only to certain files and could not have dipped into others because access was governed by codes and , in the case of the most confidential files , by numbers too . |
| 6 | Both of these ebullient works testify to the natural world as a paradise : a fact emphasised by the accuracy of the painter , whose easily identifiable plants and birds derive from different seasons and regions and could never have co-existed in reality . |
| 7 | Teesdale District councillor Phil Hughes , who also represents Bowes parish council on the accident prevention panel , said : ‘ The people doing the roadworks have taken adequate measures and could not have put up any more ‘ no overtaking ’ signs or 50mph speed limit signs . |
| 8 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |