Example sentences of "[adv] could not have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 2 | She still felt dreadfully tired so could n't have been asleep all that long . |
| 3 | Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it . |
| 4 | Reports that Morrissey was working with Craig Gannon once more could n't have been further from the truth as the Gannon legal action continued . |
| 5 | ‘ A properly directed minister acting reasonably could not have been satisfied that a public inquiry was unnecessary in the present case , where two substantial groups with conflicting views were involved ’ , he held . |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Fanshawe , this girl clearly could not have been a friend or neighbour at Eastover whom your parents were simply driving to London . |
| 7 | Rebaya and her daughter purchased the materials necessary to men to make incense sticks and again have achieved a degree of financial independence which six months before could not have been expected . |
| 8 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 9 | Must of been a tiger what the , well could n't have been a cat |
| 10 | We must have overlooked it somehow , as it surely could n't have been missed out altogether ? |
| 11 | One thing however could not have been foreseen . |
| 12 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 13 | Some of these were intended to cover such large areas ( 150 metres by 60 ) that they had to be woven in situ , since they would have been too long and far too heavy to transport to the building , and certainly could not have been manoeuvred through its maze of passages . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know the man sitting next to the producer was Dick Lester , who had just directed that film , ’ recalled Crawford ‘ Anyway , I got the part and it certainly could n't have been my charm or personality that did it . ’ |
| 15 | Alternatively , could the third party later retract the acceptance on the grounds that it was not written , and therefore could not have been relied upon by the parties to the Vienna Convention ? |