Example sentences of "could have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was unthinkable that Mick could have been right . |
| 3 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His obduracy on these issues could have been dangerous in the heated atmosphere of those early months in 1341 . |
| 7 | Absurd , but even so it could have been dangerous . ’ |
| 8 | The potential if the train had been full of toxic chemicals could have been horrific . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There remains a suspicion he could have been involved in some way , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He could have been involved in an accident . |
| 11 | Francis could have been involved in something a bit shady but nothing that would have brought him within range of any violence . |
| 12 | You could have been involved in it up to your neck . ’ |
| 13 | And I do n't believe for one moment that you could have been ignorant of the fact that she was wealthy . |
| 14 | Conversely , in the Cotswolds not one property in five — big estates included — could have been owner-occupied . |
| 15 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 16 | Without in any way contradicting himself he continues : ‘ They could have been warm-blooded , highly active creatures ( with a fully divided heart ) , without any of the costs associated with being an endotherm . ’ |
| 17 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That left at least forty-eight hours from Angela Morgan 's disappearance when , as far as the forensic evidence went , she could have been alive . |
| 20 | ‘ Hello , I 'm trying to clarify a rather confused report we 've picked up — I think from the local police — about an incident at the hospital last night , or it could have been early this morning . |
| 21 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 22 | Two were from World War Two , but one — surrendered to a Salford police station — was a modern East European device which could have been lethal . |
| 23 | In one fourteenth-century case a surname could have been Penerine , Penerive or even Penerme , and an interesting study on bynames and family names was thwarted . |
| 24 | Mum ran when she was young and my two elder sisters , Lorraine and Lisa , could have been good . |
| 25 | Alone , negotiating the locks could have been tedious . |
| 26 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 27 | The way we work is similar and it could have been nasty when we wanted the same part . |
| 28 | That could have been nasty . |
| 29 | That could have been nasty . |
| 30 | ‘ It could have been nasty but in the end I think it was just case of exchanging insurance details , ’ said Insp Madison . |