Example sentences of "could [verb] been [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could have been another contributory factor having a bearing on the origin of man 's appreciation of beauty . |
| 2 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 3 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 4 | The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading . |
| 5 | Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo . |