Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Edward could have a row about evolution . ’ |
| 2 | Obviously Jackson could have proposed these many things plus the obliteration of the moon and none of it , none of his isolate and courageous and visionary ideas would have mattered but for the huge national endorsement he received . |
| 3 | ‘ Easily the most promising , ’ judged Pacey , in 1961 ; and George Woodcock added that Leonard was one ‘ who could write lines which are no longer good imitation Yeats ; they are lines which only Yeats could have imitated . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I had only known — if only Isabelle could have forced herself to tell me . ’ |
| 5 | Only Rob could have known seven . ’ |
| 6 | One somehow thinks that only Lewis could have stepped , with a few vigorous steps , from a defence of drunken all-male ‘ stag ’ evenings to a vivid illustration of the life and literature of the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 8 | If only Mark could have got a living in a better district , she thought , as she had so often thought before . |
| 9 | Hick , could be available still to play for Zimbabwe , but it does not bode well for the development of cricket in Zimbabwe itself , and I would agree with those who hoped that perhaps Zimbabwe could have been readmitted as part of South African cricket in their domestic competitions . |
| 10 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 11 | Single-handedly Aenarion could have destroyed an army that day . |
| 12 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 13 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 14 | And now England could have a fight on their hands in their second innings on a pitch beginning to help the slow bowlers . |
| 15 | But surely Ben could have given the child a pill ? |
| 16 | On the contrary , I shall try to illustrate my feeling that here Paley could have gone even further . |
| 17 | This was a better start to the day than even Lucy could have hoped . |
| 18 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |
| 19 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
| 20 | Faced by the prospect of losing power , surely Lamont could have forgotten his principles and chosen Budget au Lapin from the available menu . |
| 21 | Even though the cast has been inevitably expanded for the new film , dramatically Shirley could have stood on her own . |
| 22 | In effect , there was no apparatus , military or political , whereby Rome could have imposed herself forcibly on Ireland . |
| 23 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 24 | But it is difficult to imagine how Dustin could have felt any involvement in the picture . |
| 25 | If you must exercise flights of fancy , I 'd much rather you concentrated on working out how Chatterton could have committed murder . |
| 26 | Thiercelin allowed himself to wonder how Daniel could have been attracted by her . |
| 27 | I am no great linguist but I still ca n't see how both Menes are represented , nor can I understand at all , how Daniel could have drawn from these three apparently simple words his full translation : ‘ God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it . |
| 28 | ‘ We equalised their opening goal very quickly and that gave us a real lift because by then Liverpool could have been two or three up . ’ |
| 29 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 30 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |