Example sentences of "could [adv] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is inconceivable that Eliza would have married Wickham , just as Lucy could only have married George . |
| 2 | Everything seemed to have happened in excruciatingly slow motion , yet common sense said the entire incident could only have lasted seconds . |
| 3 | North Korea and the Soviet Union could only have drawn encouragement in the belief that America would most likely not act with vigour if North Korea moved against the south to reunify the peninsula . |
| 4 | They could comfortably have accommodated Shostakovich 's other ‘ happy ’ Symphony ( No. 9 ) , particularly if these two releases are the fist in a complete cycle . |
| 5 | Sham-manipulations were not performed because ornament manipulation could not have affected model ‘ behaviour ’ , and there were no visible artefacts of manipulation . |
| 6 | An observer at the end of Innocent 's reign , from the facts in front of him , could not have pronounced Innocent other than successful . |
| 7 | Donal O'Sullivan , infectious disease control expert , said Guy 's could not have shut wards sooner as the source had not been traced . |
| 8 | could not have recognised Lautro without being satisfied that the Lautro Rules appear to contain ‘ adequate provision for appeals : ’ see paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act . |
| 9 | Parliament could not have intended paragraph ( b ) to produce new substantive rights in respect of registered land , enabling registered dispositions to be set aside and removed from the register in circumstances where , if the land had not been registered , no cause of action would have existed . |
| 10 | They could not have made change of land use profits . |
| 11 | Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial . |
| 12 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 13 | If man was a late creation , his Fall could not have brought pain and death into the world ; ferocious dinosaurs , and animal suffering generally , brought grave problems to those seeking a theodicy , justifying the ways of God . |
| 14 | It was evident that without three hands James Pegg could not have infiltrated poison into the soup bowl . |
| 15 | According to Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] , without him the king at one time could not have got bread . |
| 16 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 17 | But alone they could not have removed Mossadeq . |
| 18 | A pity he could not have read Alec Wilder 's American Popular Song ( 1972 ) which , using basically the same musical criteria as Adorno — derived from European bourgeois art music — could have been designed as a riposte to his view of this repertory |
| 19 | The first is based squarely on the suggestion that it is simply an illusion to suppose that any truth , or any significant role in social explanation need be assigned to counterfactuals of the form , ‘ If individual X had not had the psychological characteristic a , they could not have performed action b and event p would not have occurred . ’ |
| 20 | If this had happened the rogue could not have conferred title upon the innocent purchaser ( unless under some other exception to the nemo dat principle ) for the rogue would no longer have had a voidable title . |
| 21 | If Pargeter was telling the truth and did not leave the party until the body was found , she could not have murdered Nicola . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |
| 23 | Many of R.S. 's employees were able to become first-time house buyers in the new location , whereas in London they could not have afforded property . |
| 24 | Mr Rampton read extracts from Sir Anthony Eden 's May 1945 diaries which Lord Aldington agreed showed he could not have had dinner with the minister on 25 and 26 May as he had claimed . |
| 25 | Last night the Victoria Hospital , Blackpool , Lancs , said the doctor who examined her leg could not have known Vanessa had meningitis , which attacks the lining of the brain . |
| 26 | The sounds were plaintive , resonant , doom-laden as those of a passing-bell , and she recognized even then — though she could not have found words to express it — that it would turn out thus , just as she had said . |
| 27 | The growth of formal education systems could not have taken place without the incorporation of sectors in society , which had previously been excluded . |
| 28 | We wish to thank both these bodies for the support without which the Conference could not have taken place . |
| 29 | But it could not have taken place without the railways , which once again proved to be the vital enabling factor . |
| 30 | So far as white settlement is concerned , the rapid peopling of the Canadian prairies and north country , of southern , central , and eastern Africa could not have taken place at such a speed without the railway . |