Example sentences of "could have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 2 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 3 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He could have been here , ’ she said . |
| 5 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wish he could have been here to see it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 8 | The inquiry represents a genuine need for information which could have been partly fulfilled by traditional means such as telephone books or local guides but which could be investigated more thoroughly by using Prestel . |
| 9 | It is probable that Uhuru could have been commercially successful on its own , unlike the Nationalist , which certainly was not . |
| 10 | And although I knew by then that I was wretchedly unhappy in comparison with other girls of my age , this was still what I wanted to do , because however joyless and painful the present might be , the future could have been even worse . |
| 11 | Iraq , however , perhaps came to feel it could have been even more substantial . |
| 12 | It could have been even wetter . |
| 13 | ‘ It was the highest result yet against Malta in this group and with greater composure it could have been even more . |
| 14 | I think it could have been even more positive by using the whole thing to sell Canberra 's food , food handling courses . |
| 15 | But the investigators said yesterday that the explosive could have been illegally packed into the hold as part of the cargo , without a detonator . |
| 16 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 17 | He could have been left-handed , but there 's no reason to suppose he was . |
| 18 | What we are supposing is that everything could have been exactly as it was except for the non-occurrence of the smell of the candles . |
| 19 | However , the scarcity of craters on the maria makes it difficult to understand how lava could have been extensively fractured leave alone reduced to dust . |
| 20 | She shone so brightly she could have been freshly painted ; you were afraid that if you touched her you 'd smudge something . |
| 21 | This could have been unintentionally hilarious had it not been so dreary . |
| 22 | The creation of an Anglian archdiocese could have been primarily intended as an expression of a new southern Anglian political community . |
| 23 | I would have thought those things could have been pretty closely calculated . ’ |
| 24 | I felt that there could have been slightly more involvement with the police at this point , as it would have been quite interesting to hear their views on this problem . |
| 25 | Strictly speaking , there can be no ‘ knowledge ’ of things that are so , but that could have been otherwise . |
| 26 | It is arbitrary in that the rules ( consciously followed or not ) in accordance with which this behaviour is produced , could have been otherwise , while yet serving the same communicative purpose . |
| 27 | The designation of such events as ‘ accidents ’ implies , as this statement makes clear , that things could have been otherwise . |
| 28 | Such parents know that it is something they have been socialised into by a segregated society , and that things could have been otherwise : that they ought to be otherwise ( It 's not fair … ’ ) . |
| 29 | It is difficult to see how at that point in history it could have been otherwise . |
| 30 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |