Example sentences of "it could have be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 2 | It could 've been abandoned , they could have moved on but maybe it was seen as a taboo place , we just do n't know . |
| 3 | yeah it could 've be done better |
| 4 | It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe . |
| 5 | It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head . |
| 6 | The only criticism is that it could have been made available earlier to complement the often impractical tomes which emerged from other quarters . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'm right , and that spider-thing was all force fields and fancy holograms , it could have been made to jump off the line and get me . ’ |
| 8 | How it could have been made to pay is a mystery . |
| 9 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 10 | The extent to which it could have been foreseen and thus pre-empted by a more alert administration , which tried to foresee coming trends , seems to be a matter of disagreement among prison administrators , critics and researchers in many jurisdictions . |
| 11 | It could have been cut back hugely , and told to concentrate just on defending troops in the field . |
| 12 | So it could have been condemned as they were going . |
| 13 | In retrospect , however , it is difficult to see how , unless the King had shown most remarkable misjudgment , it could have been decided other than it was . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So , all things considered , I think I have done all right , handled my problem as well as it could have been handled . |
| 16 | Whatever the objective truth of this assertion , it could have been formulated on purpose to infuriate me , and I denied both halves of it . |
| 17 | His view finds support in the memoirs of Iakov Solov'ev , one of the major participants in the process of reform , who asserted that " Only the will of the autocrat could have sustained the numerically small and socially ill placed progressive party , which without it could have been destroyed " . |
| 18 | as I said it could have been worded better |
| 19 | It could have been written to a boy of seven ; I was only half that age . |
| 20 | It could have been written by its bearer , given by Florence as Abbot Lyfing of Tavistock , who eventually became bishop of Worcester , for this would further explain how Florence had a copy . |
| 21 | Judging by the many Figures covered by the first letter of the alphabet — fifty-eight at the beginning — it can be appreciated that Miller had been justly advised ; such expansion throughout the work would have priced it far outside the purse of the ‘ generality ’ if , indeed , it could have been completed in his lifetime . |
| 22 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 23 | Nothing is known about the location and extent of the associated estate ; it could have been connected with stone-quarrying around Bath , which was being extracted and used for tombstones at Colchester before the Boudiccan revolt . |
| 24 | Bowles was awarded a big cheque from a tabloid newspaper and if his own self-professed myths are a guideline it could have been squandered at the nearest bookies . |
| 25 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 26 | If the process of evolution had not been presented in this way ( though with careful caveats ) it is very questionable whether it could have been accepted so rapidly by Victorian society . |
| 27 | Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found . |
| 28 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
| 29 | Perhaps it could have been rounded up to seven hundred — still not quite accurate , but at least more accurate ? |
| 30 | It could have been built in mahogany , yew , ash , teak , oak or cherrywood style , and the company will build any size and style to order . |