Example sentences of "[noun pl] could have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months could have gone by . |
| 2 | In spite of this one likes to think that the dinosaurs could have engineered their own continuing survival , building upon the immense advantages that large brain and body size confer . |
| 3 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |
| 4 | Indeed , there is no doubt that with appropriate cueing subjects could have recalled considerably more information about many aspects of the drive . |
| 5 | This interest in national subjects could have led to cosiness as it tended to during Balcon 's time at Ealing Studios , but at this period he was under pressure from the Ostrer Brothers to maintain a diversity in his output and aim for the international market . |
| 6 | If the cucullati could be depicted as objects of ridicule , other religious images could have suffered too . |
| 7 | ‘ Had the current changes taken place 10 years ago , many of the kids I coached in townships could have reached the top . |
| 8 | But although amino acids might well have become strung together to form primitive proteins , it is difficult to see how those proteins could have had any kind of coherent structure , or multiplied themselves efficiently , without help from DNA . |
| 9 | Perhaps only expert eyes could have spotted the correlation between this spirited image and the refined clothing which passed in front . |
| 10 | Only very partisan supporters could have gleaned much pleasure from this match . |
| 11 | Had a system of funding and quality control been merged , I doubt whether the polytechnics could have achieved such high quality and cost-effectiveness . |
| 12 | But whalers could have enlightened them in this respect , for they knew that whales possessed acute hearing , the constant ‘ twittering ’ of the White whale even earning it the name of the sea canary . |
| 13 | If the doorsteps could have curled at the edges , they would have done so . |
| 14 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 15 | In practice direct grant schools , the perpetuation of the public school system and the vested interests of sections of teachers as well as that complex animal , parental wishes , worked to maintain the status quo ante bellum to a much greater extent than even the most lukewarm of reformers could have wished . |
| 16 | ‘ So only the person who served the lobster or put it on the plates could have poisoned it ? ’ |
| 17 | Yesterday 's high winds could have swept a poison cloud over Teesside in a matter of minutes . |
| 18 | Male and female responses to the static models could have differed because crested auklet males tend to wait for females to approach , then aggressively reject unwanted partners , whereas females are more active in seeking out and approaching males ( although both sexes show either type of behaviour ) . |
| 19 | The question for remoteness was whether the defendants could have foreseen a burn , not whether they could have foreseen cancer . |
| 20 | The defendants could have found product liability insurance easily , ( see also on this point Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyds Rep 434. ) and the term was universal in the trade ( but had never been negotiated by any trade association ) so that the plaintiff had no opportunity of obtaining product on other terms . |
| 21 | To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says . |
| 22 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ And I do n't believe his parents could have lasted too long either . ’ |
| 24 | She found it hard to understand how her parents could have deceived her all her life . |
| 25 | This can be produced in less than 12 hours , when previously designing and producing molds for prototypes could have taken weeks , if not months . |
| 26 | It is necessary to look for concentrations of finds because a handful of finds could have got onto the land in any number of ways and is not necessarily an indication of the presence of a nearby archaeological site . |
| 27 | One can get a further perspective on the development of the class/politics relationship in the period of the Wilson government by asking the question of whether matters could have turned out very differently , and in particular whether a ‘ socialist alternative ’ was there for the taking . |
| 28 | Neither of these cultures could have provided an effective basis to challenge hegemonic authority in West Ham ; both were effectively foreclosed within dominant ideological discourses . |
| 29 | Two unspoken reasons could have explained this apparent lack of adequate precautions . |
| 30 | The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas . |