Example sentences of "could [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There could have been little expectation , especially after the war resumed in 1369 , that circumstances would again favour papal taxation : yet they did . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 14 | He was describing Denis Law but it could have been this era . |
| 15 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 16 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 17 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 18 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
| 19 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 20 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 21 | It could have been any letter . |
| 22 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 23 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 24 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 25 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 26 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
| 27 | If he had denied it there could have been some hope . |
| 28 | You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall . |
| 29 | With regard to the relics , I was prepared at least to consider the possibility that there could have been some sort of automatic response in the nerves and muscle fibres triggered by the lightning . |
| 30 | Only one penny of this issue has survived from the York mint , and none from Lincoln , suggesting that very few of the dies used to strike it ever reached the north ; the reason could have been some sort of political crisis . |