Example sentences of "could have [verb] such a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody could have foreseen such a rapid expansion prior to , and since , moving into the new premises . |
| 2 | " Who would have thought that , without cringing , the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union could have created such a splendid feeling among employers ! " |
| 3 | Only Lyman 's Ear could have detected such a sly whisper . |
| 4 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 5 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 6 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 7 | The attempt has failed , through scepticism that one man could have supervised such a major project whilst still discharging Elias 's functions as steward and administrator elsewhere . |