Example sentences of "could [vb infin] been [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it could have been a cheque for a |
| 2 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 3 | Angelica Kauffman might be compared with Mozart — an infant prodigy overendowed with artistic gifts — but while music could have been a profession for a man , it would have turned Angelica Kauffman into a performer . |
| 4 | Had there been , there could have been no room for doubt . |
| 5 | ‘ Dod ’ , he speculated , could have been the name for the original surveyors , ‘ dodging ’ about . |
| 6 | The chimney stack of a small steamer , the slanted gaffs of fishing boats returned from the morning catch , the furled booms of others , moored and idle , bisected his segment of sky ; framed by the blind like a holy picture fringed with handmade paper lace , it could have been the setting for a miraculous landfall of a saint 's body . |
| 7 | This was where he came from — not in any self-pity — ( although there could have been an excuse for that , in the bitter harvest of the coalfields ) — nor with any attempt to show off ( although the battles he had fought and won to achieve what he did deserved a boast ) — those stories were told and retold to keep the faith . |
| 8 | This could have been an argument for the theory of the mechanical origin of the sound in the days when some still insisted that it was vocal . |