Example sentences of "could easily have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He could easily have commuted , but liked the ambiguity of living in two places . |
| 4 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 5 | I mean , you could easily have forgotten , could n't you , what with finding out about Mr Bishop ? |
| 6 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 7 | The text is illustrated with examples drawn mainly from the Roman world , although different examples from other periods and cultures could easily have been used instead . |
| 8 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | She could easily have noble blood , she looked the sort . |
| 10 | He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer . |
| 11 | Manchester City4 , Leeds0 THE WHEELS came off Leeds United 's hitherto solid championship challenge at Maine Road in a match which , paradoxically , they could easily have collected the point they needed to return to the top of the table . |
| 12 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 13 | It was one he could easily have missed but as soon as it went in , any nerves were dispelled . |
| 14 | Daley 's 66th-minute decider was one of few moments of excitement though , once in front , Villa could easily have sealed their victory with two more goals in the ensuing five minutes . |
| 15 | Flush from her victory over Austria , Prussia could easily have imposed the terms for the North German Federation on her partners , and indeed proposals were drawn up in 1866 for a union ‘ based on Prussian characteristics ’ . |
| 16 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 17 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 18 | It could easily have been her and Pet having a go at one another . |
| 19 | The murder could easily have taken place over the boundary , in the Metropolitan police area . |
| 20 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 21 | The number could easily have been doubled , and doubled again , in further trips , but what I had discovered was already enough to reveal the full horror of what was happening . |
| 22 | I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt . |
| 23 | Michael could easily have followed every word of it in his Mass Missal , but he did n't have one . |
| 24 | The latter at more than eight minutes long could easily have become one but for the hypnotic strains and pumping rhythm . |
| 25 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 26 | The flash could easily have been the moonlight catching a wavetop on one of the larger pools . |
| 27 | And the view — overlooking the couple 's farm , in Bronham , Wiltshire — could easily have been taken straight from a postcard . |
| 28 | Much of the so-called ‘ clinical evidence ’ for homoeopathy exists in the form of anecdotal cases which , the critics rightly point out , could easily have occurred by chance . |
| 29 | I could easily have gone on . |
| 30 | Milton 's Lycidas , for example , goes conventionally enough into ‘ Elegy and Epitaph ’ , but the poem 's preoccupations could easily have qualified it for ‘ Church , State , and Belief ’ . |