Example sentences of "it could [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is further emphasised by s2(6) of the Act , which provides that in any prosecution for publishing an obscene article , " the question whether an article is obscene shall be determined without regard to any publication by another person , unless it could reasonably have been expected that the publication by the other person would follow from the publication by the person charged . " |
| 2 | But the Chinese Constitution contains all sorts of promises , too — so many that it could probably have been construed to forbid the People 's Liberation Army from shooting dead hundreds of unarmed civilians , and to prohibit the arbitrary arrest , summary trial or execution of thousands more . |
| 3 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 4 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 5 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 6 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 7 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 8 | It could easily have been her and Pet having a go at one another . |
| 9 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 10 | but when they came to put into the new concrete support cradles , they found on average there was 30 feet of peat on top of the bedrock , so it could easily have been done . |
| 11 | The company had stuck with the infant system at a time when it could easily have collapsed , and the ITA 's credibility with it . |
| 12 | There was always a couple of works men on call , so it could easily have been done . |
| 13 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 14 | The Popplewell report into the disaster concluded that it could easily have been prevented . |
| 15 | Thaxted church was built in about 1340 and the finishing touches were made in the 1550s ; with its magnificent structure it could easily have been the cathedral of north-west Essex if one had ever been needed . |
| 16 | Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa . |
| 17 | He 'd know that someone would have to go down there and recover the body and it could easily have been spotted . |
| 18 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 19 | I congratulate the British farming industry on keeping its temper at times when it could easily have boiled over and reciprocated . |
| 20 | If one writes and asks — or begs — British Rail to include improvements in the Bill which it could easily have done by extending part III , one gets the same treatment . |
| 21 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 22 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 23 | She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them . |
| 24 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 25 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 26 | That is why , if the stock exchange had built Taurus many years ago , as promised , it could also have ensured the earlier abolition of stamp duty . |
| 27 | It could also have mentioned another aspect of Labour 's election advertising which , though more implicit than subliminal , was not at all lost on lesbians and gay men — or anybody not actively engaged in Happy Heterosexuality . |
| 28 | It could also have a bearing on its unusual style — no verbal testimonies from friends and colleagues , no old archive footage , just Van getting royally stoned on the music with some mates . |
| 29 | But it could also have been just an ordinary large cloud , ’ said Markku Konttinen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute . |
| 30 | Such a copious supply of pure water would have been beneficial to the occupants , but it could also have been the centre of a water cult . |