Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it was , it might , could 've been dark grey |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | it came , it did it almost came to a halt again and it could 've been dangerous as well you , children in the back , two children in the back ! |
| 4 | And therefore y er in a sense he was , he was acting on the basis of a false premise and therefore the wh sort of the whole set of conclusions he draws could 've been wrong . |
| 5 | If it had n't the results could 've been catastrophic . |
| 6 | That could 've been disasterous . |
| 7 | All you could smell was boiled fish . |
| 8 | So there was no entrance there and all they could do was clear by the main lodge . |
| 9 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 10 | All he could see was tough grey jelly plastered across his visor . |
| 11 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
| 12 | I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert . |
| 13 | All the bushes she could see were small and scrubby and she could n't find an excuse to leave S. Kettering and double back to the front of the house . |
| 14 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 15 | Almost immediately the safety glass shattered and all they could see were white chips . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 17 | Though the Dragon Princes were few the destruction they could wreak was unmatched then as it is now and few dared the wrath of Caledor . |
| 18 | Anything Richard could suggest was irresistible and Tory nodded . |
| 19 | The coroner Michael Colcutt said that the only verdict the jury could return was accidental death . |
| 20 | Spotting a store that is not selling as much as it could sell is easy . |
| 21 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 22 | It was unthinkable that Mick could have been right . |
| 23 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 24 | Circlip detachment could have been consistent with a high tension condition in the belt that , by resulting in elastic bending of the pin , caused a loading to be applied by the backplate flange to the circlip in the axial direction of the pin . |
| 25 | This was TV 's first half-hour news bulletin , and something of which Pilkington could have been proud , since research had shown in 1966 that 83 per cent of viewers were perfectly content with the traditional fifteen minutes at 8.55 pm . |
| 26 | His obduracy on these issues could have been dangerous in the heated atmosphere of those early months in 1341 . |
| 27 | Absurd , but even so it could have been dangerous . ’ |
| 28 | The potential if the train had been full of toxic chemicals could have been horrific . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There remains a suspicion he could have been involved in some way , ’ he said . |
| 30 | He could have been involved in an accident . |