Example sentences of "could [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 2 | The men who had killed her father and now Broom-Parker could presumably have something similar planned for her . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided . |
| 4 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 5 | Looking at the carbon dioxide levels , there 's just one indication of where the government could feasibly have been tougher , at least er critics said that , they er could have been tougher . |
| 6 | The store will be built in stages and could eventually have enough room in its 30 vaults to store 6000 tonnes of spent fuel for up to 100 years . |
| 7 | ‘ Indeed , ’ says Jim Whiston , quality manager for C&P , ‘ without the correct accreditations , ICI could eventually have lost the bulk of its engineering plastics business . |
| 8 | The Corporate Finance Department of the licensed dealer pushing the stock , could arguably have alerted the dealing room earlier but it never did . |
| 9 | Can we imagine , for instance , that rulers could effectively have articulated their image through Christ , had there been no religious feeling in society as a whole to which appeal could be made , when they projected the Christ-image of rule ? |
| 10 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 11 | Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood . |
| 12 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 13 | Umm , err … to make it more fun for both of us , we could perhaps have dinner and you could show me how you 'd behave in a date situation . |
| 14 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 15 | With enough genetic mutations at hand , the behaviour could perhaps have evolved independently in each species . |
| 16 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 17 | Technically , such receipts , unlike share certificates , have no value as collateral , though a layman could perhaps have been duped . |
| 18 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 19 | ‘ If I could perhaps have your address for delivery please , Miss Milligan , ’ the chief assistant requested . |
| 20 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 21 | He could perhaps have changed something . ’ |
| 22 | If I could perhaps have a picture my father painted ? ’ |
| 23 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 24 | Nothing could better have driven her fears for Benedict temporarily from her mind . |
| 25 | I played the drums when I had to , I played the bass when I had to , and I felt after a while I could kinda have it as my own . |
| 26 | What could so have soured the Hartlepool atmosphere ? |
| 27 | We could all have rivers brimming with salmon if you wish . |
| 28 | Definitely , yes , and you , you and Dave could have come up and er Carla , perhaps not Lee , but , you know , he may have wanted to go off somewhere else , erm , we could all have bunked down on what spare space there was and I was going to do a very primitive almost medieval , middle ages sort of Christmas |
| 29 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 30 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |