Example sentences of "[that] could [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it turned out it had landed in a position that could n't have been more perfect for what was to happen next . |
| 2 | This was underpinned by a dedication to the cause that could n't have been bettered by a pack of African Hunting Dogs . |
| 3 | ‘ The way he has transformed the Labour Party into a position of strength is something that could n't have been achieved by any other leader in our history , and not by any other Party member at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | Well then let's fill in April , then I think we should actually make sure that we 're comfortable that is essential and th that there is overtime being worked there that could n't have be worked in the week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the middle of the trivia , the stuff that could easily have been 1930 or 1960 , there was information for the gleaning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The façade , as well as the rest of the outside , is of Candoglia marble , a white stone with a pink tinge and blue veins that could not have been bettered as a choice for so ornate a structure . |
| 15 | It was a modern brick house that could not have been cheap to buy and the name on the gate said COSY NOOK . |
| 16 | A change in circumstances that could not have been predicted exactly does not mean that planning was incorrect in the first place . |
| 17 | re-examining and evaluating existing applications of the approach with a view to bringing out what has been achieved that could not have been derived by other methods |
| 18 | Obviously there are distances that could not have been jumped by the earliest animals with proto-wings . |
| 19 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 20 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |