Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 2 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 3 | It calculated that a typical out-of-work student entitled to housing benefit and income support could have expected to receive £733.80 over the 12-week vacation . |
| 4 | The introduction of computer support could have had significantly different effects on the service providers and on the users , and the Needs Analysis was carried out using a different questionnaire for each generic group . |
| 5 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 6 | He says that if the whole building complex could have gone up . |
| 7 | Not even John Knox or Ian Paisley could have competed . |
| 8 | Safely out of the sight and sound of him , she gazed raptly at glossy brochures and debated the merits of sofa-beds over plain settees with all the enthusiasm Marie-Christine could have wished . |
| 9 | As we have said , animals are superbly aware of the way a mind is reflected in body posture and there is no way that the hunter Jim Corbett could have concealed his alertness and readiness for attack , whatever disguise he adopted . |
| 10 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 11 | The one inescapable impression left by it all is that the canal system as a whole was so run down and dilapidated that nothing short of a central canal authority wiling and able to undertake a vast investment programme could have any hope of making the canals profitable again . |
| 12 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 13 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 14 | It was likely that , just as Theodora had seen the car from the bridal path , Miss Dersingham could have seen it from the House . |
| 15 | Here a fighting withdrawal could have been staged , with the German advance checked by successive lines of defence on each feature . |
| 16 | Michael Sandusky has argued that United States troops could have assumed control of the greater part of Korea had Korea been identified as a priority and had MacArthur been willing to modify his decision to concentrate American forces in Japan prior to the official surrender on 2 September at the ceremony planned by MacArthur . |
| 17 | Indeed , successful labour organisation could have been more firmly based on unions which each combined many skills within a single industry , rather than of related functions in a wide range of businesses . |
| 18 | But Darlington Chief Inspector Matt Longstaff also believes club managers could have contacted the force if they were in doubt over their legal position . |
| 19 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 20 | This Fraxillian city apparently had none of those things , except objects that by a stretch definition could have been called buildings . |
| 21 | It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti . |
| 22 | In those pieces that are workable for both groups , it seems perfectly plausible that the string and wind ensembles could have played simultaneously the statement in the first entrée that the bride and groom are led by the violins and oboes suggests as much or they may have played in alternation . |
| 23 | Manufacturers say the overall decline in car sales could have serious consequences for the motor industry as a whole . |
| 24 | Nothing John Smith as leader of the Opposition attack could have said would have been as damaging as the bitter words of Norman Lamont , speaking with all the knowledge and authority of a former key member of the Government . |
| 25 | But in each ceremony alternative devices could have taken the place of the handshake . |
| 26 | Club sides could have defended better ’ . |
| 27 | Another assault on Neil Francis could have serious consequences for the perpetrator . |
| 28 | The halls were much smaller than the rock star could have filled and concert hall operators became suspicious . |
| 29 | After all , anybody who read the description of the murder weapon in the Saturday papers could have sent the knives . |
| 30 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |