Example sentences of "[noun prp] could have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon could have made double figures … with a little more accuracy and determination … but in the second half they eased back … the hard work had been done … |
| 2 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |
| 3 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 4 | County Durham and Cleveland could have faced serious water shortages had Keilder reservoir not been built , a water environment group heard . |
| 5 | Although it became heretical to deny that God could have created other worlds , it was as dangerous to say that He had . |
| 6 | Last night , as detectives waited to continue their questioning , they said they feared Joanna could have blotted important details of her ordeal from her mind . |
| 7 | The appeal was based upon the consideration that Harris could have suffered foetal brain damage as a result of alcohol abuse by his mother , or from blows inflicted by his father who had tried to abort the foetus , but had succeeded only in causing it to be born three months prematurely . |
| 8 | It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints . |
| 9 | Staying in Blackpool to ride out the storm might have been unduly bullish , while retreating to London could have prompted undue alarm bells . |