Example sentences of "this could have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could have been just the usual self-indulgent actor 's reminiscences . |
| 2 | With a bit more Imsak , this could have been a great book . |
| 3 | I suggest that Mr Paul will feel better for having tried this on , and failed , and that his second book will be the one this could have been . |
| 4 | ‘ All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says . |
| 5 | ‘ This could have been an accident , sir , ’ he said uneasily . |
| 6 | This could have been unintentionally hilarious had it not been so dreary . |
| 7 | This could have been a thinner book . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This could have been provided under the Public Bodies ( Admission to Meetings ) Act 1960 ( as amended ) under which local authority meetings are open to the public with limited exceptions . |
| 10 | This could have been a highly recommended text , covering in an imaginative manner processes which are fundamental to living systems . |
| 11 | However , improvements such as this could have been introduced without going wholesale into a market economy for health with its inevitable two-tier system for general practice . |
| 12 | This could have been an argument for the theory of the mechanical origin of the sound in the days when some still insisted that it was vocal . |
| 13 | Which is unfortunate , for with some extra attention paid to these details this could have been a worthy instrument rather than just a competent one . |
| 14 | This could have been accomplished through a special edition of The Register or accompanying literature sent out with the ballot papers . |
| 15 | This could have been problematic among competitors , but was openly aired and dealt with by the group . |
| 16 | And although this could have been a problem with Platinum , Mr Nabakov feels he has found an acceptable way around it . |
| 17 | It is difficult to see how this could have been avoided . |
| 18 | A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’ |
| 19 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 20 | If you had done your job properly , been a decent husband , then all this could have been avoided . ’ |
| 21 | It was far from clear to the pope how this could have been transmitted to the whole human race unless there had been an historical Adam and Eve , that is , a single set of parents . |
| 22 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 23 | A situation like this could have been resolved by either the workers in the marketed sector accepting lower wages , or the employers accepting lower profits or a combination of the two . |
| 24 | In the absence of any concrete evidence of an agreement it is unlikely that this could have been done . |
| 25 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 26 | This could have been a winner if the quality of the keyboard was up to that of the casing . |
| 27 | This could have been a vengeance slaying for the killing of Peada forty years before , allegedly by the treachery of his wife , Ealhflaed , the sister of Osthryth ( HE 111 , 21 , 24 ) , but no further details are known . |
| 28 | 730 onwards , this could have been a factor in the aggressive policies of Aethelbald in southern England at this time . |
| 29 | There was no officer gaping for a fee ; this could have been said of no city on the English side of the Tweed . ’ |
| 30 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |