Example sentences of "could [vb infin] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was doubtful , he said , whether the Vietnamese government could succeed without the most generous , if not passionate , French assistance ; and yet how France 's partners within the French Union could evolve had never been defined : indeed no one knew what the French Union meant . |
| 2 | yeah , but obviously the canteen is part of the college and could 've have still burnt down the college . |
| 3 | She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde . |
| 4 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 5 | Such control over world oil prices could have had very unpleasant effects on the economies of the developed world , turning the danger of global or regional recession into a chronic threat . |
| 6 | That may have ruined the image a bit , after all , not even Prior , Keen , Baldwin could have had that many motorbike-riding clients . |
| 7 | ‘ The goals are starting to come — but I could have had about 20 by now . ’ |
| 8 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 9 | The bad year in question could have had unusually severe winter weather but , even without information on this , figures from adjacent ( and therefore similarly affected ) states would provide controls . |
| 10 | The introduction of computer support could have had significantly different effects on the service providers and on the users , and the Needs Analysis was carried out using a different questionnaire for each generic group . |