Example sentences of "could [adv] have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 2 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 3 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 4 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 5 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 6 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy . |
| 8 | He used his pace and aerial strength and created some chances , one of his passed could easily have resulted in a goal . |
| 9 | Captain Montgomery was a tall , burly character with a jutting black beard , white teeth , a slightly hooked nose and humorous eyes and , in spite of the immaculately cut uniform and four golden rings on either cuff , could easily have passed for a well-to-do and genial eighteenth-century Caribbean pirate . |
| 10 | The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note . |
| 11 | The ten-week India campaign could hardly have started on a worse personal note when it was announced , just as England flew in on 29 December that his marriage was over . |
| 12 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 13 | In addition , divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching . |
| 14 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 15 | He could really have done with a steaming hot beaker of |
| 16 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 17 | He was young , and not at all bad-looking ; she thought that it could well have happened in a much worse way . |
| 18 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 19 | The angular , and in the case of the three women at the extreme left and right of the Demoiselles , rather ‘ faceted ’ appearance of the figures , and the heavy , chalky highlights found in certain parts of the drapery could well have come from a study of El Greco 's work . |
| 20 | Dr Grainger and some of the local doctors dismissed the ulcers and sore throats as ‘ common ’ , saying they ‘ could well have occurred as a coincidence ’ . |
| 21 | That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . |
| 22 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 23 | X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye . |
| 24 | Chelmsford could certainly have done with a bigger pool of players . |
| 25 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 26 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 27 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |