Example sentences of "could [adv] have [vb pp] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not have visualised such a desperate situation as the one which he had found . |
| 2 | Mme Guérigny could not have borne such a thing . |
| 3 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 443 ) remarks of the Act , the TUC ‘ could hardly have accepted such a reversal of the terms of politics as they had been understood for a generation . ’ |
| 4 | Chief coach Rod Carr could hardly have expected such a position at this stage of the Olympic run-up and it is a justification of the Richard Ellis elite squad system under which financial and training assistance has been concentrated on a small number of the best sailors in each class . |
| 5 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 6 | His aim is to make ACT number one supplier for the international finance sector , and although he admits he could n't have said such a thing three years ago without being laughed at , he now feels confident that it is a realisable goal . |
| 7 | Marx could never have accepted such a view . |
| 8 | Individual minds separately at work could never have reached such a silly conclusion . ’ |
| 9 | There was , however , something about the regular yet enormous features of the cavern that suggested that man could never have performed such a feat in this time zone . |