Example sentences of "[noun] that could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | NASHWAN 'S owner and trainer yesterday decided against the only course of action that could have restored the reputation of their Derby winner as one of the outstanding racehorses of the post-war era by opting to by-pass the richest and usually most competitive race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 2 | The people that are in the audience laugh when they see animals that could have been made to do things — just for money . |
| 3 | Directors Bill and Kath Parker started the business back in 1957 in a small underground warehouse in London with stock that could have been housed in the boot of their car , with Bill packing and Kath typing each treasured order as it arrived . |
| 4 | I think this is a deal that could have been done ; we just were n't getting to the finishing line quickly enough . |
| 5 | Mr Major was saved from a crushing defeat that could have forced him to quit after several leading Tory Eurosceptics yielded to unprecedented arm-twisting from Government whips and constituency chairmen to back down . |
| 6 | She says : ‘ Experiencing the reality of this very wonderful little human being makes a mockery of any disappointment that could have been felt in her . |
| 7 | A judge yesterday made a unique ruling against Warwickshire County Cricket Club that could have repercussions in all sports . |
| 8 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 9 | Today , we debate a legislative programme that could have been proposed only by a Government who have no purpose other than hanging on to office for a few more months . |
| 10 | With the possible exception of a stall warning unserviceability , examination revealed no evidence of any failure or malfunction of the aircraft that could have contributed to the accident . |
| 11 | It was many years since he 'd had anything in common with his foster family and she would have expected him to use his sojourn in America as a tactful method of ending the association , of breaking ties that could have no conceivable advantage for him . |
| 12 | Traditionally , phonemes were supposed not to overlap in their allophones , so that the only plosives that could have allophones with bilabial place of articulation were and ; this restriction is no longer looked on as so important . |
| 13 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 14 | ‘ To see if there were any sharp edges or protrusions that could have caused such a head wound ? ’ |
| 15 | Wanting to protect him , she took charge of the conversation then , turning it to subjects that could have no personal connotations for him , subjects like the efficient way that the British government had persuaded the Americans to take over responsibility for Greece and its defence against Communism , which they could no longer afford , and their less effective attempts to involve the Americans in the Palestine troubles . |
| 16 | DOUG SCOTT Himalayan climber DEATH OF AN ENGLISH WALKER A tragedy that could have been prevented ? |
| 17 | It 's described Victoria 's brain damage and blindness as a tragedy that could have been avoided : |
| 18 | It is quite possible that the expansion of the social services may have used up some of the labour that could have been absorbed by the manufacturing sector but there was no scarcity of labour as such in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 19 | This reduces the effect of the synonyms to a figure that could have been achieved by choosing an initial packing density of just over 33 per cent for the file — but this file is 90 per cent packed . |
| 20 | The point is that reasons that could have been relied upon to justify action before his decision can not be relied upon once the decision is given . |
| 21 | But neither Robson nor Charlton may be too keen now to expose their teams to the little nuances and shifts of psychological advantage that could have a bearing on the game in Cagliari on June 11 . |
| 22 | If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling . |
| 23 | The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming . |
| 24 | Such sums may have been trivial in comparison with the financial resources at the disposal of the larger American combines , but they provided a base that could have been built on . |
| 25 | No one had taken much notice of the woman Blanche assumed to be the attempted assassin , and Dexter garnered a description that could have fitted Christine Mills — and a hundred other women equally well . |
| 26 | ‘ [ The works committee ] have agreed to give you an assurance that the council will consult with you in the review of highway access to the area around number three basin , in accordance with the terms of the planning permission granted , and will not simply impose upon you without your agreement an entirely new point of access and exterior routing that could have an extremely detrimental effect upon the viability of your scheme . |
| 27 | We failed to offer proposals that could have been equally appealing but more constructive — such as more control over lifetime contributions to pension funds , greater stakes in enterprises through measures like employee share plans , more extensive rights as employees . |
| 28 | There , an impregnable first line of defence against any invader with visual taste , stood hundreds of miles of small houses that could have been assembled by retarded monkeys dipping randomly into a box of building styles . |
| 29 | Discounting is based on the recognition that money received one year hence is worth less than money received today because of the income that could have been earned by investing the capital now . |
| 30 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |