Example sentences of "could have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could have been tailored for you . |
| 2 | He could have been paralysed for life … by a toy which been hired to give him a good time . |
| 3 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
| 4 | When he arrived with Kylie in London , however , Blamey could have been forgiven for thinking his relationship with the Minogues was to be a short one . |
| 5 | Dropped in , blindfolded , you could have been forgiven for thinking you were in Surrey were it not for the unmistakable twang of the Ulster accent . |
| 6 | The people of Northern Ireland could have been forgiven for believing this to be no longer so . |
| 7 | He could have been forgiven for thinking that he was God 's gift to acting . |
| 8 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 9 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 10 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 11 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 12 | WHEN TEA was taken at 3.10 on the final afternoon of the first Test , even the more fervent student for the long game could have been forgiven for switching to automatic pilot . |
| 13 | You could have been forgiven for imagining , that Peter Nicholson had undergone surgery to replace his vocal chords with a megaphone . |
| 14 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 15 | Racegoers could have been forgiven for steering well clear of Britain 's first Sunday jump meeting . |
| 16 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 17 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 18 | AS the Prince and Princess of Wales sat only a few feet apart in Seoul 's Presidential palace yesterday they could have been mistaken for strangers uncomfortably thrown together . |
| 19 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 20 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 21 | I was glad he chose to wear it , for otherwise , in his shirt-sleeves and braces walking between us , it could have been mistaken for an arrest or at least a ‘ helping with inquiries ’ and the last thing I wanted was a street riot . |
| 22 | After watching feeble jokes about Norma Major 's voting intentions and Neil Kinnock 's image , I wished it could have been monitored for an injection of humour . |
| 23 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 24 | Something similar could have been said for Davout . |
| 25 | It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere . |
| 26 | Not long ago you could have been prosecuted for owning gold . |
| 27 | If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads . |
| 28 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 29 | Paradoxically , more could have been achieved for crofting in Lewis , on a permanent basis , by a regional policy for fisheries than by all the money being spent on agriculture through the IDP . |
| 30 | The folly was in failing to realise that more could have been achieved for the nation , within the EEC , by protecting regional interests , than could possibly be achieved for the regions by protecting national interests . |