Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 2 | It was always but a matter of illustration , and any branch of production could have served that purpose equally well … |
| 3 | Without it , I doubt if he could have undertaken such work is he did . |
| 4 | The Marshal would have liked to turn this problem over to the Captain who could have applied some brains to it . |
| 5 | You could have prepared that fire and retired to bed . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing could have prepared either of them for what they experienced . |
| 7 | If in fact she had proceeded along a more orthodox path , she could have become one of the great political women of our time . |
| 8 | It is inconceivable that Edmundo Ros 's maraccas , or Mantovani 's string sound , could have become famous without full-range recording . |
| 9 | I could have become fond of the bearded man even though he was the clumsiest chap I knew . |
| 10 | Tensions in the family could have become unbearable without the help of Theresa , a volunteer from their local Victim Support scheme . |
| 11 | Four times the England No. 1 had game points , and had he secured one of them , it could have become interesting . |
| 12 | Both Simon and Bladud have fatal attempts at flight , black magic and heresy in common , and it is easy to see that the two stories could have become confused . |
| 13 | I mean I do n't know , I mean somebody er our respective conferences could have raised that er and the debate 's gone ahead and it 's been voted on and said no , I mean I do n't know . |
| 14 | A large amount of capital ( £200,000 ) was available to the Western Isles Project from the Van Leer Foundation ; it is doubtful whether individuals , however dedicated , could have raised sufficient enthusiasm for action without it . |
| 15 | It is easy to imagine how the early inhabitants of the Middle Fast , and in particular the ancient Egyptians , could have converted this African race into a domestic partner and there is little doubt that this is what occurred , with the more northerly European form being left out of the story altogether in the initial stages . |
| 16 | I could have guessed that . |
| 17 | If you look at the history of the band , songs like I Was Made For Loving You , which had a kind of dance feel , we could have done much more of that and been successful with it . |
| 18 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 19 | Nobody believed Philip could have done such a thing as marry one of the Ryan girls for love . |
| 20 | She could have done such things . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 22 | She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing . |
| 23 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 24 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 25 | A lonely , miserable wretch , living a furtive life in a shabby room somewhere , uncared for , unmourned , and it could have happened to her husband , to herself , Omi … the War could have done that , its implacable hand wiping out all human ties . |
| 26 | ‘ He could have done that easily . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I could have done that on my own , ’ Laura confessed . |
| 28 | When it repeated the words back perfectly , the bishop claimed there was no human being in the world who could have done that , and the machine 's fidelity was perfect . |
| 29 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 30 | Diana could have done that . |