Example sentences of "could have be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been Dan Dare in the nursing home . |
| 2 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 3 | The ale could have been sea water for all he tasted . |
| 4 | ‘ Or it could have been Maggie Parkin — ’ |
| 5 | I ca n't for the life of me see how it could have been Sheila Williams he was with … |
| 6 | ‘ It could have been Jane Pargeter , who was about to lose her job . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It could have been Marston Moor , it 's nearer than Waterloo . ’ |
| 8 | It could have been exam pressure we 've read about people like that at Oxford University . |
| 9 | Ealdred 's kinswoman could have been Abbess Aethelburh , daughter of a local lord , Aelfred , who was given Withington in Gloucestershire in the 770s ( CS 217 : S 1255 ) . |
| 10 | Correspondent Hadrian Jeffs of Norwich suggested that the lady in the background of the photograph could have been Hilda Lyon , who was a calculator on the design staff at Cardington ; he also points out that ‘ the model is of the R.101 in its original form , before the fitting of the controversial amidships bay which became the subject of so much debate in the post mortem ’ . |
| 11 | Had it been enraged and indignant , it could have been Conan Doyle 's . |
| 12 | As for the famous make-up , ‘ It is a technical achievement but , for all anyone knows , it could have been Stacy Keach in such a rig . ’ |
| 13 | There have been many Sir Johns , and you could have been Sir John yourself . ’ |
| 14 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 15 | ‘ Or it could have been David Parkin . ’ |