Example sentences of "[subord] it could [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when they came to put into the new concrete support cradles , they found on average there was 30 feet of peat on top of the bedrock , so it could easily have been done . |
| 2 | There was always a couple of works men on call , so it could easily have been done . |
| 3 | This had a constant length of travel for the carriage and a constant speed , so it could hardly have been anything I did . |
| 4 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 5 | The gesture , if it could ever have had any importance , was now certainly much too late , for it was no longer in Paris but in Berlin that events would be decided , as Bismarck had begun to make clear . |
| 6 | This is further emphasised by s2(6) of the Act , which provides that in any prosecution for publishing an obscene article , " the question whether an article is obscene shall be determined without regard to any publication by another person , unless it could reasonably have been expected that the publication by the other person would follow from the publication by the person charged . " |
| 7 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 8 | I asked him whether he felt that this work fed off the troubled times in Belfast , and if so whether it could also have a more universal appeal . |
| 9 | Without them it is questionable whether the Uprising would have happened and if it had , whether it could either have embraced the total population or sustained itself for so long . |
| 10 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 11 | Also engineers are singled out here as the culprits when it could well have been social ( and technically incompetent ) scientists ! |
| 12 | Well it looks as though it could well have been |