Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marshal would have liked to turn this problem over to the Captain who could have applied some brains to it . |
| 2 | She could have done such things . |
| 3 | As that was a race in which Lotus , knowing that Fittipaldi was planning to leave , had given no team orders to Ronnie Peterson to be obliging to Fittipaldi , Ronnie won — as he could have done several times previously — and with Ronnie 's win , Fittipaldi was eliminated from the title race . |
| 4 | He could have helped to clarity issues , could have done some investigations of his own , and would have then alerted the relevant department to any problems . |
| 5 | We could have built many schools , sheltered housing schemes and sports centres with those millions of pounds . |
| 6 | No-one knows whether openness could have prevented these tragedies . |
| 7 | The parameters used to select patients for the trial , however , could have indicated several remedies other than Rhus toxicodendron , and the chances of any particular patient responding to the Rhus toxicodendron were little better than might have been expected by chance alone . |
| 8 | Nobody else could have worn those clothes — the bags ! |
| 9 | The history of life , he argued , could have followed all sorts of paths . |
| 10 | A delighted Arsenal manager George Graham saluted his side 's 4–1 win over Crystal Palace and said : ‘ We could have scored more goals , perhaps even eight ’ . |
| 11 | But he 's back for tomorrow 's clash in neutral Germany at Bochum 's Ruhr Stadium , and manager Walter Smith said : ‘ Ally is bubbling and wants to make up for missing three games when he could have scored more goals . |
| 12 | Mr Tzannetakis , who has won public affection for his unassuming style , said this week that no single-party government could have achieved these things — the broader consensus was what was needed . |
| 13 | Anxious to deny any significant revolutionary input , they were at pains to resist any suggestion that machine breaking could have had any links with a revolutionary political movement . |
| 14 | If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed . |
| 15 | No Eastern bazaar could have held more wonders for us kids as those highly coloured stalls with their buckets , spades and " Kiss me Quick " hats and all that goes with a seaside bazaar . |
| 16 | ‘ I could have left those papers for another three or four days before dealing with them . ’ |
| 17 | But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab . |
| 18 | I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres . |
| 19 | I knew that if we could have released three or four , we could have sold more records . |
| 20 | I have to say that if some of those born again modernizers had supported us then , we could have settled these issues long ago , and got on with the business of winning elections , which I thought was what party politics was about . |
| 21 | The absence of normal colonic content , the water infusion through the manometry catheter , and the presence of a semirigid foreign body could have triggered more HAPCs than would be recorded in an undisturbed bowel . |
| 22 | Of course the Government could have avoided these difficulties . |
| 23 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |