Example sentences of "it could have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could 've blown something . ’ |
| 2 | It could 've happened to anybody . |
| 3 | 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 , . |
| 4 | It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business . |
| 5 | Otherwise , it could have followed the Dutch example . |
| 6 | She found it perplexing and wondered how it could have affected her lessons with Miss Hatherby . |
| 7 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 8 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 9 | It was a mindless thing to do — it could have cost lives . ’ |
| 10 | Alternatively it could have developed as another example of a prey-killing poison that has been secondarily used against attackers . |
| 11 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 12 | ‘ It could have made me rich , but I do n't regret it . |
| 13 | However had the United States regarded the joining of a nuclear free zone agreement as incompatible with the Pacific Security Treaty it could have made a claim of material breach and suspended the first agreement with respect to New Zealand . |
| 14 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 15 | It could have led to a certain amount of resentment , particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah . |
| 16 | Possibly it could have led to gastric ulcers and an early coronary , so perhaps the change was a blessing in disguise ? |
| 17 | Indeed it could have led to great problems . |
| 18 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 19 | However , it could have hidden a greater reduction in flow in the deeper layers of the bowel wall , which may be the main site of vascular compromise . |
| 20 | Nothing of its kind had ever been done before , and it could have blown up in his face . |
| 21 | And it could have blown a good distance in last night 's gale . |
| 22 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 23 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 24 | The facts that might have prompted CSM to take a more serious view of Opren at its November 1981 meeting are : 1 its own unprecedented number of adverse reaction reports ; which by 1 November 1981 included over 20 deaths which reporting doctors suspected to be due to an Opren reaction ; 2 The reports of the Paris symposium , which it could have attended ; and 3 Dista 's suggestions for a change in the dosage recommendations . |
| 25 | If the smoke had climbed to the upper atmosphere , it could have remained airborne for months , travelling much farther and possibly affecting the world 's weather patterns . |
| 26 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 27 | ‘ It could have waited . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It could have waited , ’ she said uneasily . |
| 29 | It could have done anything . ’ |
| 30 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |