Example sentences of "could have be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
| 2 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
| 3 | McIllvanney also kept a few power-cruisers of his own for charter , and his yard ran an efficient yacht-servicing and marine supplies business , and thus the boundaries between his operations and Cutwater Charters were necessarily blurred and , for all intents and purposes , he could have been said to run Cutwater . |
| 4 | We could have been bound to pay enormous sums of money if we had lost . ’ |
| 5 | Though these accident reductions are to be welcomed , they have to be seen in the context of what could have been achieved using alternative approaches , such as those used in Buxtehude or Berlin-Moabit . |
| 6 | The 9000-year-old agriculture there is now based largely on cultigens , including taro and bananas of south-east Asia , arriving before 4500 BP , but earlier phases could have been sustained using native species , including indigenous bananas , yams , pandans and sugar cane . |
| 7 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 8 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 9 | The budget could have been used to get this region and the country generally out of recession . |
| 10 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |
| 11 | Additionally , the level of detail achieved by the extended breakdown of the conceptual model could have been utilised to explore other aspects of the formal systems model ( eg resource levels , control or communication issues and so on ) , or to examine matters such as the ideal groupings of systemically desirable tasks , an approach discussed further in Chapter 12 . |
| 12 | So , the tree which from which bows used in the Battle of Agincourt could have been fashioned seems set to live on for a few more generations yet . |
| 13 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 14 | Compared with 1973 SDLP lost seats in Armagh and Mid-Ulster which could have been retained had Republican Clubs supporters transferred votes to SDLP . |
| 15 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |