Example sentences of "[det] [noun] could have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money could have gone to so many good causes . |
| 2 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 3 | In fact there were only 12 points between 20th and 6th places , a couple of away wins and a little luck could have seen us finish around 8th . |
| 4 | That click could have cost him £250,000 , the difference between first and third place . |
| 5 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 6 | The difficulty was that Labour could have found itself supporting military action against a fascist state at the same time as it threatened a general strike against war . |
| 7 | Fourth Division TOWCESTRIANS with an outstanding 1991/92 season in which they won the East Midlands Colts Cup and won 28 of 30 matches , are planning an even more successful campaign , but few clubs could have enjoyed a better pre-season build up than COLCHESTER . |
| 8 | While admitting that some of this funding could have displaced other funding sources — for example , technicians in short supply would likely have found alternative work — the authors of the report , Robin Brighton and Virginia Aschas , say that they also found clear evidence of economic gain . |
| 9 | With the failure of Wyndham 's efforts , the rebellion in England became essentially a movement of Catholic recusants in the north , which few Anglicans could have wanted to see succeed , especially since the Pretender had refused to renounce his religion . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the choice of subjects was bad , autumn grass is already stressed , and this effect could have overlaid any effect due to the cutting . |
| 11 | Had Baldwin resigned immediately after the election , on the other hand , the King might well have sought to ascertain whether another Conservative could have formed a government and secured Liberal support . |
| 12 | This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods . |
| 13 | A criticism of these data was that the groups were not comparable and that this difference could have accounted for the results rather than the effects of therapy . |
| 14 | This team could have persuaded the Pope to confess that Judas Iscariot had been framed by George Washington , and that Jesus H. Christ had let Huey , Dewey and Louie take the rap for the St Valentine 's Day Massacre . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think another caddie could have killed Froggy in order to get the job with Harley ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I only wish I knew who it was who gave it to her , because this person could have destroyed her career . ’ |
| 17 | Uplift of this magnitude could have occurred during Hercynian times with the stripping of considerable amounts of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 18 | The simplest account for the relationship between risk and recall in this study was that subjects recalled the risky situations because they knew it was an experiment about risk , this knowledge could have affected their performance both at encoding and at retrieval . |
| 19 | This water could have left features visible today , such as dendritic channels . |
| 20 | All this stress could have caused an aneurysm . |
| 21 | This gentleman could have taken his time , but as Adele Appassany , another assistant who witnessed the scenes the day before explained : |
| 22 | When the hobby of metal detecting first came to Britain in 1970 , few people could have foreseen how popular and successful it was to become . |
| 23 | Yet it is probably fair to suggest that few people could have been immune from the implications of the party struggle at Westminster , since decisions taken by the central government often had a direct affect on ordinary people 's lives , and few people could have avoided being exposed to the political controversies of the day through the various media of propaganda . |
| 24 | Some inspector could have got his promotion over you … |
| 25 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 26 | And such a drop on this flight could have pulled the plane out of the sky . |
| 27 | In no way could I ever have imagined that this poem could have done anything but rouse the Church to action . |
| 28 | In the congested space few bullets could have missed their mark and the slaughter would probably have continued but for the presence of mind of the officer in charge of the war drums , who ordered them to beat the signal for silence , when the madness ceased as soon as it had arisen . |
| 29 | The young woman was also pregnant and Kendrick believes this consideration could have influenced the court 's decision . |
| 30 | Few voters could have obtained a real grasp of the issues at stake and hardly any would have been in a position to assess the leadership qualities of the candidates on offer . |