Example sentences of "could [adv] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warned that he could easily have suffered a heart attack . |
| 2 | I could easily have become a scapegoat . |
| 3 | South America could easily have had a marsupial anteater , alongside its marsupial sabre-tooth " tiger " , but as it happens the anteater trade was early filled by placental mammals instead . |
| 4 | He could easily have got a foot stuck and he would have drowned . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’ |
| 6 | You could easily have borrowed a book from your local library and come to the conclusion that the specification of the 5086 was perfectly state-of-the art — whereas in fact it is now looking really rather old fashioned . |
| 7 | SHORT of selecting a dead student , the Nobel Prize Committee could hardly have made a choice more calculated to embarrass and enrage the Chinese leadership . |
| 8 | If Puddephat had been at the flat in Paris on Friday evening , he could hardly have squeezed a trip to Germany in between . |
| 9 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 10 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 11 | There must exist proven facts from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace . |
| 12 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 13 | Some years ago Maisie had swallowed a whole bottle of vitamin pills and , although Henry had suggested that in his view Maisie 's stomach could probably have stood a diet of broken glass , aspirin and raw steak , Elinor had insisted on ringing Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 14 | He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity . |
| 15 | The strong-bodied American , with his rugged features , had spoken with a quiet simplicity ; and as he 'd watched him and heard him , Morse thought he could well have enjoyed a pint with the fellow . |
| 16 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 17 | However , the tiny amount of " wad " obtained from the mine could never have supported a mill and all alternative supply must have been arranged . |
| 18 | The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit . |
| 19 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 20 | If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage . |
| 21 | Yes , of course she had , because Grandmother had known full well that her husband could never have fathered a child . |
| 22 | As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this . |
| 23 | She probably could never have afforded a stairgate , so Save The Children lent her the equipment from its safety loan scheme . |