Example sentences of "could [verb] [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one of them could have been double-bogeys or worse ! |
| 2 | Lady Antonia Fraser and solicitor D L Morgan of the Law Society were sent packages which Post Office staff thought could have been bombs . |
| 3 | Slowly he removed the hat and slowly he looked down at it , his vision blurred by alcohol , but for all anyone knew it could have been tears . |
| 4 | The only influence on their choice could have been differences in the credit terms . |
| 5 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 6 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 7 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 8 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 9 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 10 | The stories of Sigurd and Wayland seem to have been particularly popular , and while , as R.N. Bailey has argued , such carvings could have been attempts to link pagan with Christian belief , one is still driven to the conclusion that they " may have appealed to tastes and interpretations which were based more on the traditions of Scandinavia than the Christian Fathers " . |
| 11 | It could have been nerves or the effects of the Turkish firewater raki from the night before . |
| 12 | All of those could have been candidates to provide extra revenue . |
| 13 | All of those could have been candidates to provide extra revenue . |
| 14 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 15 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 16 | It could have been vicars and tarts , of course , but I reckon he 's one of those transvestites that hang out up there . |
| 17 | Jeans , but clean and spruce and I said I have a feeling they could have been police . |
| 18 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 19 | As the hunt was called off last night detectives dismissed earlier claims the men could have been terrorists . |
| 20 | Despite the ten-year gap in their ages — Burt is 56 and Tom 46 — they could have been twins . |