Example sentences of "but [pers pn] could have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 2 | ‘ But we could have been 12 or 13% up had it not been for the bomb scares , ’ said John Monk . |
| 3 | Most often the support band are terrible , but they could have been great and they could have been you . |
| 4 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 5 | The signature looked like Spiggy Meu but it could have been Spiggy Lee . |
| 6 | Scottish striker Trevor Smith scored his customary goal to make it seven goals in seven games for him — but it could have been eight . |
| 7 | GUIL : But it could have been worse . |
| 8 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 9 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
| 10 | I 'm not sure but it could have been longer . |
| 11 | He was describing Denis Law but it could have been this era . |
| 12 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 13 | The William and Mary declaration being 1688 , it suggests that such a lease might have run from that date , but it could have been earlier , in which case such an arrangement would have been almost certainly ultra vires . |