Example sentences of "could [adv] have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could just have been bad luck . ’ |
| 2 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 3 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 4 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 5 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |