Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auto Express did not mince its words : ‘ It 's difficult to see how much more Ford could have done to improve a car that was already very good . ’ |
| 2 | He said there was nothing they could have done to avoid the accident.Both men were extremely experienced . |
| 3 | So you had you had twelve pennies in one pile and twelve in another and you 're doing twelve add twelve now you could have done counted the whole lot could n't you ? |
| 4 | If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him . |
| 5 | ‘ Surely the business community on Merseyside could have rallied to raise the cash . ’ |
| 6 | Few could have hoped to show a courage almost as strong as Kelly 's when she learned that her heart and lung transplant had failed . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , in the one movement , the concluding ‘ In te Domine ’ , for which Charpentier employs , his accustomed time-signature for very fast movements , and where Christie could have justified doubling the speed , he adopts a more leisurely minim=g3 . |
| 8 | Who could have dared to blot the landscape so ? |
| 9 | Naming the first person I could think of , I answered St Francis — because he could have chosen to live a life of luxury and ease , but had in fact followed the principles of Christ in giving away all he owned and living a life of poverty . |
| 10 | It is important , because , as the hon. Member said , there have been earlier opportunities for such legislation — the Government could have chosen to include a measure in their order of business , and a private Member once introduced a Bill , but unfortunately did not have enough time to secure its progress . |
| 11 | Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that I could have chosen to make the point about good design . |
| 12 | They could have afforded to buy the stuff if they had wanted to — their parents were all loaded — but school was so boring , it was the only way to liven things up . |
| 13 | No actor could have resisted asking the question . |
| 14 | The evidence did not justify the judge 's conclusion that no competent valuer could have failed to spot the potential of the two oils . |
| 15 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 16 | Second , if volatiles were acquired after accretion , from the impacts of volatile-rich bodies , then Mercury and the Moon could have failed to capture the volatiles made available in this way . |
| 17 | It is surprising how little the poet 's father shared in these games and sports , which could have helped form a natural bridge of intimacy with his six sons as they began to go their several ways . |
| 18 | It could have helped clarify a number of issues at an early stage and possibly saved people a lot of money and anguish . ’ |
| 19 | Ideological and philosophical issues receive inadequate attention and yet these could have helped define the common context ( or , perhaps , the contrasting contexts ) in which art and science were pursued . |
| 20 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |
| 21 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 22 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
| 23 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 24 | She could have tried to climb the hills , and fallen ! |
| 25 | We could have tried to address the problem without all this talk of more Government cash , more this , more that , more the other . |
| 26 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |