Example sentences of "could have [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm , I 'm going to have to cut you off , cos we 're running out of time , but I very much take the point you 're making , that it could 've had this trade effect on us , just in the last ten seconds Professor Hoskin , is it possible to predict what 's going to happen in the Soviet Union over the next six months , is it gon na be for good , or , or , . |
| 2 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 3 | No great master could have done this scene justice . |
| 4 | But Mr Weston believes there 's nothing that could have prevented this accident . |
| 5 | The analysts were unable to identify any software available at that time that could have supported this volume and variety of files without considerable development . |
| 6 | Grateful thanks are due to the following , without whom I could have written this piece but it would have been rubbish |
| 7 | Tim Smith could have blown this kick over , but it was downhill then for the rest of the first half . |
| 8 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 9 | I could have wept this morning when I opened the papers , I really could . |
| 10 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 11 | For example , Justice Foster said , ‘ Had the author [ of the advertisement ] wished to indicate that nothing more than an opinion was being expressed , he could have achieved this object quite simply by introducing the very same words ‘ we think ’ before the ‘ there is little evidence ’ . ’ |
| 12 | It could have happened this morning when all of you were in there . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Not even my dad could have set this lot up . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been another 17 or 18 years before we could have had this vote again and I would have lost my chance . ’ |
| 15 | Spelling , I could have improved this work by checking the spelling carefully with a dictionary . |
| 16 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
| 17 | No Minister could have introduced this legislation without having investigated extensively the experience in England and Wales . |
| 18 | Mel Reed do you think you could have predicted this sort of backlash ? |
| 19 | And the two of them would discuss , with some enthusiasm , where Donald could have acquired this information . |
| 20 | I 've thought about this a lot , I doubt that I could have started this channel . |
| 21 | But surely nobody could have anticipated this sort of attack ? |
| 22 | I wish you 'd told me before , Edward , I mean , it 's entirely your own affair of course but if I 'd known forewarned would have been forearmed and we could have avoided this sort of thing . ’ |