Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the known mosaics belonged to private rather than official or religious buildings , this might indicate the presence of wealthier individuals who could have formed a town council , as might the marked concentration of late villas in the area , including that at Ilchester Mead , just outside the south-western suburbs . |
| 32 | Had Baldwin resigned immediately after the election , on the other hand , the King might well have sought to ascertain whether another Conservative could have formed a government and secured Liberal support . |
| 33 | Perhaps the police had n't searched in there ; if not , they could have missed a vital clue after all . |
| 34 | ‘ Well , a trail of gunpowder from the bed under the doorway , then someone could have struck a tinder ? |
| 35 | Any of them could have hidden a secret staircase . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | By stripping the Volta scheme of all the ancillary facilities which could have stimulated a Ghanaian industrial revolution , Kaiser and Reynolds succeeded in creating the conditions for one of the most prosperous aluminium smelters in the world … at what was then the lowest power rate in the world . |
| 38 | The blow could have split a mountain . |
| 39 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 40 | ‘ Incident Rooms I have Known ’ : Wycliffe could have written a book about them . |
| 41 | ‘ Believe me , I could have written a book on the subject when Joanna 's messenger found us . ’ |
| 42 | Although the Poles could have exercised a military option in the north just as they had done in Silesia , by this time their involvement in a war against the infant Soviet state , over territories and borders in the eastern provinces , made this a logistical impossibility . |
| 43 | Only a week earlier on Palm Sunday , it seemed possible that Jesus could have led a rebellion against the hated Romans . |
| 44 | Yesterday 's high winds could have swept a poison cloud over Teesside in a matter of minutes . |
| 45 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 46 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 47 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 48 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 49 | They 're both — were both — well over twenty-one , and they could have made a deal which essentially bought out Angela 's life interest for a capital sum and then Miss Huntley would have got the rest . ’ |
| 50 | A very thoughtful cricketer , with a much greater knowledge of the game 's history than most players , one had the impression that he could have made a fine Test captain had the chance come earlier . |
| 51 | The bowlers , though , did well in favourable conditions and , if they had been better supported at slip , could have made a match of it . |
| 52 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 53 | It 's tricky , as someone who skis and mountaineers , to whine about the encroachment of ski developments in Scotland , especially when the developers of Aonach Mor spilt so much ink about how they were ‘ conservation friendly ’ , they could have made a major motion picture out of their press releases . |
| 54 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 55 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
| 56 | If you have not been adequately consulted , and a tribunal is satisfied that consultation could have made a difference to the redundancy decision , there is a good chance that you will succeed in an unfair dismissal claim and be entitled to compensation . |
| 57 | ‘ My ancestors in the Scottish islands used to farm seaweed and if they 'd had our technology they could have made a dish like you 're eating now . |
| 58 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 59 | If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living . |
| 60 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |