Example sentences of "[conj] could [adv] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
| 2 | So John Emburey was handed the captaincy that could well have been his years earlier if he had not gone to South Africa in 1982 , thereby losing the Middlesex captaincy to Gatting after Mike Brearley retired . |
| 3 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 4 | ‘ We have lost a significant amount of information that could well have been valuable if money had become available in future to carry out further digs along the shore . |
| 5 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 6 | Whereas spending on goods and services directly uses up factors of production that could otherwise have been employed in the private sector , transfer payments do not directly pre-empt society 's scarce resources . |
| 7 | The opposition thoughtfully provided a batting line-up of stroke-playing dashers , and bowlers that could easily have been selected at random from a passing Delhi omnibus . |
| 8 | In the middle of the trivia , the stuff that could easily have been 1930 or 1960 , there was information for the gleaning . |
| 9 | Ambulance crews witness scenes like these every day , now , after being called out to accidents that could easily have been prevented they 're trying to do something about it . |
| 10 | Then , in that second of hushed silence before the screen and fanfare blaze out , there came from the middle of the auditorium a huge and shocked voice ‘ What the fookin''ell are yo ’ doin' ? ' , followed almost at once by two mighty smacks that could only have been someone being hit . |
| 11 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
| 12 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 13 | Robina Fairfax 's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own , so variously coloured and oddly shaped were they . |
| 14 | She tried to ease her hand out from under his but met with a resistance that could only have been overcome by struggling , and pride refused to let her do that . |
| 15 | However , thanks partly to the arrival of the sound film , this small measure was to change the nature of the British film industry in ways that could hardly have been foreseen by the legislators , and enable it to ‘ project England ’ more effectively than it had ever done before . |
| 16 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 17 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 18 | So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained . |
| 19 | I would tell him scores from matches that were not being played , scores from matches that could never have been played , fanciful scores , impossible scores . |
| 20 | His tone had changed and now held an inflexion that could almost have been mistaken for tenderness . |
| 21 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 22 | The factors that could potentially have been influenced by early angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor treatment are infarct size and expansion , and we have no specific data on these . |
| 23 | if you in fact avoid or reduce your loss , you can not recover the amount so saved , even if the steps that you took were more than could reasonably have been expected ; |
| 24 | Hence , much larger areas of double-glazing than could formerly have been contemplated , consistent with maintaining comfort , may now be built into external walls . |
| 25 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 26 | In the event it was to continue for longer than could possibly have been envisaged . |
| 27 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 28 | Use of the above method clearly has some weaknesses , the most obvious being that ours were not ‘ blind ’ assessments and could clearly have been influenced by our preconceptions about the subjects . |
| 29 | ‘ She is only a little girl and could easily have been attacked while she was standing there alone . ’ |
| 30 | He also knew that this disastrous episode was entirely his own fault and could easily have been avoided . |