Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't sure what he could have done from Purley , where he lived , but I had very great confidence in his championship . |
| 2 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 3 | It is ‘ an extraordinary compound ’ , as he himself wrote of the Prime Minister , although the elements and the whole are as different from anything which could have emanated from Lloyd George as it is possible to imagine . |
| 4 | This theory is quite untrue , as Mr Hughes could have discovered from the simplest textbook . |
| 5 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 6 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 7 | Insp Rodgers said : ‘ It seems this could have stemmed from a dispute over parking . ’ |
| 8 | In both these cases the alleged negligence was that of the medical staff at a hospital , but , as the decided cases show , it could have arisen from a range of other contexts , for instance from negligent driving of a motor vehicle or negligence on the part of a railway company or tramway company in respect of a train or tram in which the mother of the child was travelling as a passenger while pregnant . |
| 9 | Looking back afterwards , Florrie found it hard to believe that such a tragedy could have arisen from such trivial , everyday circumstances . |
| 10 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |
| 11 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 12 | This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations . |
| 13 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 14 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 15 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |
| 16 | The dark cream also sets off the bright red roses well — had I chosen a white satin , card or fabric in a similar shade it would have been too bright and could have detracted from the frame . |
| 17 | What if he could have emerged from the summit of this chimney ? |
| 18 | ‘ Even my grannie could have scored from there ! ’ |
| 19 | Some thought Labour would have had its ideal leader , a courageous genius in party management , and with a streak of inspiration in philosophy , if it could have bred from the two of them . |
| 20 | ‘ Last night , I thought you could have told from last night — ’ |
| 21 | No-one could have told from his face that he was absolutely livid with Sukey , but he did n't want a row , which would upset Daisy and gee Perdita up before the interview . |
| 22 | No one could have told from Mr. Turner 's face that his ice-cold nerve had just saved twenty thousand lives . |
| 23 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |
| 24 | This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods . |
| 25 | The leak could have come from any one of a large number of sources , as far too many people knew about the plans . |
| 26 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 27 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 28 | They could have come from anyone , anywhere . ’ |
| 29 | Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets . |
| 30 | Prison governor Peter Leonard agreed the idea could have come from the TV movie Murder , Smoke And Shadows , starring Peter Falk as the shabby sleuth Columbo . |