Example sentences of "could have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 2 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 3 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 4 | ‘ Probably because , in a crossfire , some of the family could 've been killed . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , this drug could 've been developed and refined and er gone into a lot further , but they did n't . |
| 6 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 7 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 8 | It could 've been abandoned , they could have moved on but maybe it was seen as a taboo place , we just do n't know . |
| 9 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think he could 've been insured do you ? |
| 11 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 12 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 13 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
| 14 | No it 's erm , on , on Monday , on Monday morning they could 've been working |
| 15 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 16 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 17 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 18 | she 's it could 've been saying |
| 19 | It has to be checked for any messages that could 've been left . ’ |
| 20 | yeah it could 've be done better |
| 21 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 22 | Indeed , they could have been altered if the Government had not wasted their bargaining power in attempts to defend the indefensible , attack the trivial and obtain the illusory . |
| 23 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
| 24 | Many others could have been cited , relating to religious practices , relationships between age groups , gender groups , racial groups , and so on . |
| 25 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 26 | If , therefore , in the present case the revenue was under no contractual obligation to repay the money , and had refused to exercise such residuary discretion as it had to repay , it is difficult to see on what ground its refusal to repay could have been challenged , except on very narrow grounds such as bad faith : cf. the Chetnik case [ 1988 ] A.C. 858 , 873g , per Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 27 | The absence of such a universally adopted standard whereby the human conscience could have been developed to have a significant influence on human behaviour , has been the cause of much failure in efforts to administer justice . |
| 28 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 29 | As an example , the section 530 could have been developed as follows for a sequence : 530 , 531 , 532 … 537 , 538 , 5391 , 5392 , 5393 … etc . |
| 30 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |