Example sentences of "could [verb] [be] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hatred of the ‘ officer clique ’ responsible , and shock that such treachery could occur were equally common responses . |
| 2 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 3 | However , the scarcity of craters on the maria makes it difficult to understand how lava could have been extensively fractured leave alone reduced to dust . |
| 4 | I felt that there could have been slightly more involvement with the police at this point , as it would have been quite interesting to hear their views on this problem . |
| 5 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 6 | They could have been fully praised-up members of the Future Party by now . |
| 7 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 8 | New Zealand also has the flightless kiwi ( its national symbol ) and was once dominated by the flightless moas , of which there could have been about 25 species . |