Example sentences of "could [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a shame just Mickey again out on the right hand side , Dean made a great diagonal run in behind the full back and the ball was just a little bit heavy otherwise there could 've been real danger again for Blackburn . |
| 2 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 3 | shut up , because Alan said he said oh it could have been worse girl , it could have been his bleeding handle that 'll come off and do you know I 've got two left out of six , every handle 's come off , cracked |
| 4 | There could have been greater consultation with both nursery nurse and life preparation students and due consideration given to the fact that completed craft projects are an important part of a nursery nurse 's final assessment . |
| 5 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 6 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 7 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 8 | There could have been little expectation , especially after the war resumed in 1369 , that circumstances would again favour papal taxation : yet they did . |
| 9 | If this had been a reflection of basic principles of justice there could have been little cause for complaint , but in fact an examination of the position shows clearly that this was not the case . |
| 10 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 11 | It begins to look as if the graptoloids could have been free-floating animals , of a kind without any living counterpart . |
| 12 | ’ It could have been lover-boy Gharr . ’ |
| 13 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 14 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 15 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 16 | The signature looked like Spiggy Meu but it could have been Spiggy Lee . |
| 17 | United 's man of the match was keeper Paul Kee without him there could have been five goals flying into the Oxford net … |
| 18 | It could have been four years . |
| 19 | Bailey ( 1981 ) considered that the source of the Ba-Pb-Zn vein mineralisation hosted by Lower Ordovician shales in the Shropshire orefield could have been connate brines from the Welsh Basin . |
| 20 | ‘ It could have been industrial espionage ! ’ |
| 21 | The existence of this school suggests that there could have been other halls in the town , but there is no definite evidence . |
| 22 | But there could have been other episodes , involving local girls . |
| 23 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 24 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 25 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 26 | for about three days , when they could have been one day . |
| 27 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 28 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |
| 29 | In the ‘ prostitution ’ lesson , instead of being in role as the ‘ other poor people ’ sharing the girl 's life , they could have been social workers , town councillors or students on a counselling training course . |
| 30 | It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation . |