Example sentences of "could [verb] been [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been written to a boy of seven ; I was only half that age . |
| 2 | The table is believed to date from the 1930s and could have been given to the club by a local building firm , whose managing director was on the Quakers board . |
| 3 | The same motto could have been applied to the meeting itself . |
| 4 | It was far from clear to the pope how this could have been transmitted to the whole human race unless there had been an historical Adam and Eve , that is , a single set of parents . |
| 5 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 6 | Had problems occurred , the peripheral configuration could have been reconnected to the 600J so that service could continue to be provided until the problems were resolved and the cut over completed on the next weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ If the Palace officials were n't so obsessed with secrecy , it could have been issued to the Press in the normal way . |
| 8 | None of these facts , Simone pointed out , could have been known to the healer she consulted in Canterbury . |
| 9 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 10 | We do not believe that it is the full answer which could have been brought to the House . |