Example sentences of "it could [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 2 | I congratulate the British farming industry on keeping its temper at times when it could easily have boiled over and reciprocated . |
| 3 | If one writes and asks — or begs — British Rail to include improvements in the Bill which it could easily have done by extending part III , one gets the same treatment . |
| 4 | The company had stuck with the infant system at a time when it could easily have collapsed , and the ITA 's credibility with it . |
| 5 | That is why , if the stock exchange had built Taurus many years ago , as promised , it could also have ensured the earlier abolition of stamp duty . |
| 6 | It could also have mentioned another aspect of Labour 's election advertising which , though more implicit than subliminal , was not at all lost on lesbians and gay men — or anybody not actively engaged in Happy Heterosexuality . |
| 7 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 8 | That one paper had to be left , for it could not have turned up otherwise . |
| 9 | If I had written the script myself it could not have turned out better : two European titles and a British record . |
| 10 | We knew on the other hand that Redbridge and Waltham Forest was not a competent authority and it could not have achieved this scale of planning . |
| 11 | It could not have gone worse for him when , in the 57th minute , he froze . |
| 12 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |
| 13 | It could not have done so had there not been considerable lack of confidence in these other analgesics and the 80 or so non-steroidal anti-inflammatories use to treat arthritis . |
| 14 | Miss Golightly said she has left the car in the back lane behind her house but only late at night when it could not have caused an obstruction . |
| 15 | It could not have suited me better . |
| 16 | In Orwell 's time , Wigan was as much a cotton town as it was a coal town , and if his excavation of the elements of exploitation was to have been adequate , it could not have omitted the experience of women in the cotton industry . |
| 17 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 18 | It could not have come about if the Trust had ever said to itself ‘ it is time to stop growing ’ . |
| 19 | It could not have come into existence in a single act of chance . |
| 20 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 22 | But it could not have taken place without the railways , which once again proved to be the vital enabling factor . |
| 23 | It could not have found a more appropriate , more common voice than the soulful . |
| 24 | It could not have happened unless the Church had helped to pay for the heating . |
| 25 | But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought . |
| 26 | In this way , although it could not have considered the fact , it was very like the man who waited in the shadows of its home territory . |
| 27 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 28 | I thought of bringin' it back 'ome with me , but it could n't have stood t' trip , four weeks on me shoulder back to 'Ampton Roads , an' me not able to dress nor undress neither . ’ |
| 29 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 30 | It could n't have gone better . |