Example sentences of "could have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 2 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |
| 3 | This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods . |
| 4 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 5 | We have already looked at ways in which complicated organic molecules could have come into being when the Earth was young ; and these complicated organic molecules could well have included nucleotides and amino acids . |
| 6 | The leak could have come from any one of a large number of sources , as far too many people knew about the plans . |
| 7 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 8 | Thus it can be shown that religion and god-worship could have come to man , more or less inevitably , as a product of the very nature of his evolution . |
| 9 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 10 | The following hypothesis suggests the manner in which this could have come about . |
| 11 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 12 | He wished he had n't quarrelled with Tina , then she could have come along to share what he was going to do . |
| 13 | Your dog could have come to you through a large or small dog charity , breed rescue or a private exchange — if you have given your dog its second ( or third … ) home , we want you to take part . |
| 14 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 15 | Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’ |
| 16 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 17 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 18 | They could have come from anyone , anywhere . ’ |
| 19 | His life story could have come straight from one of his classic blues songs . |
| 20 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 21 | Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets . |
| 22 | ‘ If we get eliminated on Sunday I could have come over straight away . |
| 23 | And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks . |
| 24 | Prison governor Peter Leonard agreed the idea could have come from the TV movie Murder , Smoke And Shadows , starring Peter Falk as the shabby sleuth Columbo . |
| 25 | The others , the ones designed to look tentative , could have come afterwards . |
| 26 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 27 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 28 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 29 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 30 | Charly Herscovici , who formerly assisted Georgette Magritte and for the last six years has managed the painter 's copyright and droit morale , explained how this could have come about . |