Example sentences of "could have be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it could 've been the feathers . |
| 2 | It could have been the opening sequence of any off-beat , low-budget American cop series , but closer attention to the soundtrack ( 'Green Onions ' would be an unusual choice for Florida Felony ) gave it away . |
| 3 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 4 | One can only be fearful of what could have been the situation . ’ |
| 5 | But Dr Roger Vavirie , an MSF programme director in Paris , said it was only ‘ a small explosion , ’ and could have been the result of decomposition . |
| 6 | ‘ Could have been the girl herself ? ’ |
| 7 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 8 | Mr Stringer now appears relatively safe , but he could have been the victim of his own success . |
| 9 | The third missed opportunity could have been the try of the season after Botica broke brilliantly from his own line and beat man after man but Offiah could not hold his pass on halfway with no-one between him and the Bradford line . |
| 10 | This could have been the return to the stresses and strains of normal life or because she was no longer taking Arg Nit so I put her on Arg Nit LM1 . |
| 11 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 12 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 13 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 14 | Alternatively the ‘ success ’ in ( 37 ) could have been the product of into him by evolution , thereby providing him with the power to bring about the desired result himself . |
| 15 | For all I knew these could have been the men behind the call to my father , the men come to shoot my brother . |
| 16 | ‘ Dod ’ , he speculated , could have been the name for the original surveyors , ‘ dodging ’ about . |
| 17 | Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions . |
| 18 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 19 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 20 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 21 | I thought it was a tour de force , but he seemed far more concerned about getting one wrong ( ‘ It could have been the studio lights ’ ) than pleased at getting five right . |
| 22 | Police said he could have been the rapist who has attacked several women over 18 months , including a girl of 15 . |
| 23 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |
| 24 | The irony is , Juice could have been the first from the starting blocks , as he explains from an unstreet sofa in a chintz sitting room in Soho 's exclusive Hazlitt 's Hotel . |
| 25 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 26 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 27 | Such a lack of association could have been the outcome of a varying range of factors . |
| 28 | One called John lived at Cheddington , owning land worth £1 with goods of £20 , another at Linslade , assessed at £2. 6s. 8d. and £6. 13s. 4d. respectively ; either could have been the owner of £1. 6s. 8d. in land at Soulbury , where William Turney also had the same income from land , together with £5 in moveables . |
| 29 | Another holding could have been the obscure Bigstrupp Farm , or hamlet , of which there is no record between 1346 and 1797 . |
| 30 | For all we know , it could have been the 500th unnecessary and spoiling miscarriage of justice since Test matches were first televised with the playback facility . |