Example sentences of "which could [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This goodwill , Hopkins added , ‘ went beyond — in my judgement much beyond — any forecast which could reasonably have been made before hostilities began ’ . |
| 2 | Its training grant scheme represents a commitment of £3 million that has helped secure inward investment and 3,300 jobs which could otherwise have been lost to other areas . |
| 3 | The tenant will certainly wish to ensure that its own fixtures and fittings are excluded from the definition of the premises , which could otherwise have adverse consequences so far as the tenant is concerned when construing the tenant 's covenants and valuing " the Premises " for rent review purposes . |
| 4 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 5 | In this sense as a system it was a house built of sand which could scarcely have lasted as long as Bukharin and others wished it to . |
| 6 | What is meant by calling these ‘ complex ’ is that they serve a clear and distinct function which could already have been envisaged by the testator in making his will . |
| 7 | ‘ That was a crucial error which could even have made his injury worse , ’ said Wilkinson . |
| 8 | He had some minor heart ailment , and then a kidney problem which could probably have been treated . |
| 9 | When the officer said , ‘ You will be charged with sedition , over and above the mobbing , but in certain circumstances that might not be pressed , ’ Cameron distressed himself by making a small , indefinite sound which could well have been taken for agreement . |
| 10 | The current South African team is still a long way from emulating the 1960s side which could well have claimed World Championship status if they had been able to test their strength against Garry Sobers ' West Indies . |
| 11 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he did feel that Coastal had a strong claim to the latest 3cm version which could well have been made available to assist with the war at sea if large resources had not been diverted to equip the Main Farce of Bomber Command . |
| 13 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 14 | He gave Michael an injection of penicillin — prompt action which could well have helped save his life . |
| 15 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 16 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 17 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that he had kept his hands out of ecclesiastical politics in a diocese which could easily have become his family 's see . |
| 19 | Alison escaped with only aches and pains from an accident which could easily have claimed her life … now she hopes she can put all the anxiety of the past few months behind her . |
| 20 | This was a vicious unprovoked attack on an innocent man which could easily have had more tragic consequences . |
| 21 | This change of function is one which could potentially have severe consequences for understanding . |
| 22 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 23 | Yet there are features which are difficult to explain on this hypothesis ; caves are known in places at the rear of the beach and occasionally stacks , examples being on the west coast of Arran near Imachar ( Plate 32 ) , which could hardly have withstood freeze-thaw and salt weathering capable of flattening the metamorphic rocks involved . |
| 24 | However , Lagan and Cooper DH ( both Alliance ) were the source of 1,700 non-transferable votes which could conceivably have affected the issue either way if they has been transferable . |
| 25 | People seemed to separate into camps , or to be misrepresented under labels — ‘ deconstructionists ’ , ‘ essentialist ’ , etc — and the crossover of information and ideas which could possibly have been so fruitful seemed instead a potentially explosive exchange . |
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| 27 | Among those who found wartime location shooting refreshing was the actor Michael Redgrave who credited much of the quality in The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ) , Asquith 's atmospheric picture about life on an airforce base , to ‘ the atmosphere of those three weeks at Catterick , which could never have been created in the studio . ’ |
| 28 | We should have had , at best , a continuous middle-of-the-road government which could never have taken radical reforming measures . |
| 29 | It is also , of course , from the perspective of the defendant and the prosecutor the inconvenient and expensive course to take , and one which could never have been taken if the case had begun in front of a bench of three ( see e.g. Bromley JJ. ex p Haymills ( Contractors ) Ltd. [ 1984 ] Crim.L.R. 235 ) . |
| 30 | But he recognised the abominably shredded and mutated head , and the bloodstained and distorted arms that ended in claws which could never have been human . |