Example sentences of "and [noun sg] could have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But much energy is expended fruitlessly by parallel work by different bodies , who by pooling their resources and expertise could have expedited the work and improved its quality . |
| 2 | Still , the struggle within Parliament for the reform of Parliament came near to being a revolution on whose comprehensive and rolling tumbril Owenites and Owenism could have expected to secure , as a preliminary to the reconstitution of the country as an industrial democracy , a terminal passage for the old corrupt order . |
| 3 | Those more experienced than Marie in practising acts of intimidation and violence could have told her that it is of ten a mistake to delay , to let your victims talk to you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We are left always at liberty to suppose that Aragorn and Éomer could have met once more as prisoners , say , that the Grey Company could have quailed and turned back . |
| 6 | The Departments of Environment and Transport could have agreed that in principle it was better not to encourage more cars onto the roads by building better motorways . |
| 7 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 8 | The sexton looked hurt and Athelstan could have bitten out his tongue . |
| 9 | Only a government commanding enormous confidence and authority could have accepted the blow to its prestige entailed in acquiescing in the Austrian assault upon Serbia . |
| 10 | Jane and Bill could have driven them to and from the party . |
| 11 | This process has diminished the role which experienced local skills and capital could have played , and even the allocation of opportunities to the indigenous entrepreneur has seldom been fairhanded , and free of localism and corruption . |
| 12 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |