Example sentences of "could have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He could have been infected by 1 of at least 3 different ways . |
| 2 | The pose , expression and figure of the girl could have been more fully interpreted in several ways beyond the comparisons with the work of two of Manzù 's Italian colleagues . |
| 3 | But in The Emperor no detail is adduced that might bring out what differences there could have been between the courtiers and petitioners of Ethiopia and their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 4 | The British government over the water could have been a million miles away ( for detailed accounts see Arthur 1984 ; Buckland 1979 ; Farrell 1976 ; for a summary see McAllister 1983 ; for a summary of all forms of discrimination adopted , see Whyte 1983 ; Hillyard 1983 ) . |
| 5 | No clearer way of indicating the path to be trod could have been made . |
| 6 | Without the materials , he wrote , without the paints and the brushes , the pencils and the paper , above all without the panels of glass , there could have been no beginning , and I want to record here , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that there was a beginning , at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 27 July 1967 . |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | The dots could have been made in other ways , and hardly noticeable anyway . |
| 9 | The new emphasis was to be on dining rather than drinking , and the design was as sensitive as it could have been . |
| 10 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 11 | ‘ So it could have been he who slipped over the side and did it , ’ Arabella Buckley had promptly declared . |
| 12 | It could have been switched around by anyone , hoping to lay the blame elsewhere . |
| 13 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 14 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They both insist that there was no way in which their hostess could have been poisoned before their very eyes — and both the parlourmaid and the cook swear that she did n't take anything afterwards . |
| 16 | ‘ In theory , I suppose , the nearest piece of fruit could have been doctored , but I do n't see myself how the murderer could have been sure the victim would have picked it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In theory , I suppose , the nearest piece of fruit could have been doctored , but I do n't see myself how the murderer could have been sure the victim would have picked it . ’ |
| 18 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 19 | Many of these deaths could have been prevented if the disease had been discovered earlier . |
| 20 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 21 | Certainly , an enormous amount of unproductive work could have been saved if phenomenological analyses were first performed to ‘ see ’ if this supposed psychological state actually existed … ( p. 1236 ) . |
| 22 | It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity . |
| 23 | The ballet could have been entered under the title of demi- caractère , but those people were not figments of the imagination . |
| 24 | He thus turned what could have been a tragedy into a melodrama , i.e. ‘ a sensational dramatic piece with crude appeals to the emotions ’ ( O.E.D. ) . |
| 25 | Once the definition has changed ( and that was before publication of the guide ) then the criticism of the style of ascent could have been dropped , but of course it was not , and can still be seen amidst ascents where the rock is scarcely touched . |
| 26 | He got Svidrigailov 's nightmare past the censor , and there is a good deal more to that horror than I have quoted ; and ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ could have been got past him too . |
| 27 | Typically , 20 or 30s was required for a full evaluation using all the equations , though processing could have been ten times as quick with an 80287 fitted . |
| 28 | Mr Salam , 84 , a Sunni Muslim , is the most impressive of Lebanon 's dying breed of elder statesmen , but his words could have been those of a much younger man . |
| 29 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 30 | Travelling half-way round the world to run in a race that is two furlongs longer than one taking place in the town where Old Vic is trained seems a rather extreme route away from providing what could have been a thrilling contest . |