Example sentences of "and could well [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men took , grave risks in the roles they adopted and could well have been attacked had their disguises been broken by the people they lived with . |
| 2 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 3 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
| 4 | There was a journalist , too — or maybe Antonio Francesca Pigafetta was a Venetian spy , since he came from Venice , was an acquaintance of the Doge and could well have been told to keep a wary eye on Spanish imperial ambitions in the East . |
| 5 | Such a transformation of allegiances would help to explain the reversal of northern Anglian military fortunes beyond the Forth at this time and could well have been provoked by the changed relationship between the Angles and the Dalriadic Scots . |