Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] could have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |
| 2 | Had the statements been supplied , the defence could have planned their campaign , prepared a more effective cross-examination , been ready to object , if challenging admissibility , and been prepared to let the judge and jury see the statements if that course appeared to offer prospects of success . |
| 3 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 4 | The writer could have selected a sequence such as His opponent congratulates him on his victory or He is congratulated on his victory by his opponent . |
| 5 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |
| 6 | The blow could have split a mountain . |
| 7 | Police say the shock of the burglary could have caused her death . |
| 8 | Alternatively , a more resolute and impressive personality on the throne could have upheld the status quo . |
| 9 | Mr Smith rammed home the lunacy of gambling away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS trying to prop up the pound when the money could have done so much good at home . |
| 10 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 11 | In dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Rattee said that the taxpayer could have made the returns accompanied by an indication that there were matters still outstanding which might affect the contents of the returns . |
| 12 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 13 | The nature of the relief may not , of course , have been within the understanding of the primitive intelligence , but the experience could have had its effect in giving birth to a new appreciation . |
| 14 | Dexter explained how he was wavering about the list of suspects : one moment thinking it consisted of only a handful of people and then believing almost anyone in the building could have done it . |
| 15 | ‘ The building could have gone up any minute , ’ said police . |
| 16 | The head-on film showed Carroll House had rolled to his right , inhibiting the French-trained Behera , though not actually making contact , and the verdict could have gone either way . |
| 17 | By the end of this , the slogan could have read ‘ Take Smack . |
| 18 | The story could have happened anywhere , but some readers may notice that Sinkport closely resembles a well-known coastal town in East Sussex . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that the West could have done anything , at that stage , to prevent the communist takeovers in the late-1940s . |
| 20 | He could not understand how the West could have allowed it all to take place . |
| 21 | The driver could have applied the brake but because of a defective ratchet , for instance , the brake could have slipped and as a result would not be effectively set . |
| 22 | ‘ So the driver could have left them outside your front wall ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 24 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 25 | This week I contacted Gateshead college and was told that the pressure on the access fund was such that the college could have spent its yearly entitlement by the end of the first week of the academic year . |
| 26 | It is thought that the complex could have lost 1000 m by erosion and that only the basal sections of the mineralisation are preserved ( Harris and others , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | It does not , however , mean that this is the only way in which the industry could have developed . |
| 28 | The action could have resulted in Sindy dolls being taken off the shelves , as they were in France when a local court decided Sindy had violated copyright . |
| 29 | ‘ But then , ’ said Radulfus , thoughtfully frowning , ‘ why come to me now , and confess the very thing of which the witness could have accused him ? ’ |
| 30 | The rise in real levels of social assistance which occurred in the boom could have made such opting out more feasible , even if the social assistance rates did not rise relative to earnings ( which they generally did not — child benefit in particular fell substantially relative to average incomes ) . |