Example sentences of "[adv] could have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a kind of tension that perhaps could have been alleviated if they had a couple more people with them , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The all-talking , all-colour films continued to receive more praise than perhaps could have been expected . |
| 3 | Even so , Galileo had many topics on his mind and was not solely doing astronomical research , so that the priority of a month or so could have been true . |
| 4 | None of the elderly people involved is seriously hurt , but police say they quite easily could have been . |
| 5 | It just could have been a lot better . |
| 6 | In fact , eighty per cent of what we throw away could have been used again : that means that , out of every five dustbins of " rubbish " , four contain valuable recyclable materials . |
| 7 | I think of the gym ; I wonder how I ever could have been there . |
| 8 | But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days . |
| 9 | A COUPLE who died in a seafront car smash yesterday could have been racing seconds before the accident . |
| 10 | No previous history of policy so based has , or probably could have been , attempted . |
| 11 | That also could have been predicted . ’ |
| 12 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 13 | The evidence we 've got so far could have been manufactured . ’ |
| 14 | It could have been carried over and plans which are embryonic now could have been implemented with it . |
| 15 | Could be could well could have been backspace but still there 'd still be Eleven stuff around I would have thought . |
| 16 | But they the Prestige Sterling as it 's known over here could have been more successful . |
| 17 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , this panic reaction was neither universal nor permanent ; if it had been there could have been no War of Independence . |
| 19 | If he had denied it there could have been some hope . |
| 20 | Anthropologists increasingly agree that until agriculture had evolved there could have been no modern ‘ rain-forest man ’ . |
| 21 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
| 22 | More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity . |
| 23 | Asik knew that blaming God for everything was not right , his mother had told him so , but who else could have been so cruel ? |
| 24 | There had been no sweeping transformation of schools in the northern states in Nigeria and there never could have been . |
| 25 | Most of the points had been raised before and those which had not been raised most certainly could have been . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , yes , it certainly could have been . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh yes — certainly could have been that . ’ |