Example sentences of "could well [verb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer . |
| 2 | Without that damned barrister there could well have been a verdict of accidental death . |
| 3 | However , although there is no indication of the source of 10 marks payable to Roger Blomfeld of Buxton , Norfolk ( where he also owned land worth 13s. 4d. ) , the £1. 9s. 8d. assigned to Thomas Parker , a servant of the king at Elmley Lovett , Worcs. , could well have been a payment from the manor , which was a royal estate , and Parker himself did not live there . |
| 4 | If he 'd become too demanding , and ‘ doing something about him ’ meant ending the relationship , that could well have been a motive for killing her . |
| 5 | Referring to the Braer disaster in Shetland , Capt Sclater said : ‘ This could well have been a tanker and it goes to show how vulnerable Orkney is . ’ |
| 6 | Granpa thought it could well have been a Saturday , felt it most likely the month had been January , was confident the year was 1900 , and knew it was in the reign of Queen Victoria . |
| 7 | Although reported as poor in the Domesday Book , Thwing could well have been an important place in medieval times , the prosperity of the village being a direct reflection of the influence and affluence of the Thwing baronial family , who were amongst the most distinguished and prosperous families in northern England . |
| 8 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 9 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
| 10 | Another consequence of the re-establishment of the authority of Constantius in Britain could well have been an attack on pagan monuments and practices , which had been tolerated under Magnentius . |
| 11 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |