Example sentences of "could [verb] been [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 2 | If this had been a reflection of basic principles of justice there could have been little cause for complaint , but in fact an examination of the position shows clearly that this was not the case . |
| 3 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 4 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 5 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 6 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
| 7 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 8 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 9 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 10 | You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall . |
| 11 | With regard to the relics , I was prepared at least to consider the possibility that there could have been some sort of automatic response in the nerves and muscle fibres triggered by the lightning . |
| 12 | Only one penny of this issue has survived from the York mint , and none from Lincoln , suggesting that very few of the dies used to strike it ever reached the north ; the reason could have been some sort of political crisis . |