Example sentences of "[conj] no [indef pn] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this suggestion he attributed the Labour Party 's success in the 1964 election and I am sure that no one could have persuaded him otherwise . |
| 2 | I was sure that no one could have had time to cross the gravel . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it is a remarkable tribute to the perseverance and courage of the participants that the ceremonial proceedings were concluded , although no one could have heard a single word of what was spoken into the gale and blown back . |
| 4 | Doctors hardly counted till after 1850 and no one could have foreseen the later social power of lawyers . |
| 5 | However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her . |
| 6 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 7 | In public he was urbane , and no one could have guessed that their presence here together was dictated by anything other than professional considerations . |
| 8 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 9 | But no one could have envisaged then with just what power . |
| 10 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 11 | Because no one could have found that brooch if it had just been a wilderness . |
| 12 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |