Example sentences of "there could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in The Emperor no detail is adduced that might bring out what differences there could have been between the courtiers and petitioners of Ethiopia and their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 2 | Without the materials , he wrote , without the paints and the brushes , the pencils and the paper , above all without the panels of glass , there could have been no beginning , and I want to record here , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that there was a beginning , at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 27 July 1967 . |
| 3 | Sergeant Terry Lawton , of British Transport Police , said yesterday : ‘ The train was approaching and if all 450 runners had hurdled the barriers and any had fallen , there could have been a mass slaughter on the line . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Constable added : ‘ There could have been a commuter rebellion last week . |
| 5 | Arguing in a similar way , there could have been seven at the second party , leaving one-forty second of a cake unaccounted for , and hence an attendance of 42 at the last party . |
| 6 | There could have been a fourth cup there , for Great Britain and Ireland had also won the Eisenhower Trophy for the World Amateur Team Championships , providing also the winner of the individual section . |
| 7 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 8 | New Zealand also has the flightless kiwi ( its national symbol ) and was once dominated by the flightless moas , of which there could have been about 25 species . |
| 9 | So there could have been conversation I did n't pick up — scrambled by the radio . ’ |
| 10 | There could have even been a Spot the Architect competition to go along with the design competition . |
| 11 | There could have been another contributory factor having a bearing on the origin of man 's appreciation of beauty . |
| 12 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 13 | Then it crossed my mind that there could have been an accident . |
| 14 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 15 | The existence of this school suggests that there could have been other halls in the town , but there is no definite evidence . |
| 16 | There could have been a similar reaction to the prospect of a Wilson administration and especially with the kind of rough-neck covert operations that were in progress in Ulster . |
| 17 | ‘ There could have been hundreds of people … . ’ |
| 18 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 19 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 20 | Had the conservatives prevailed completely , there could have been a reconciliation with Rome after the death of both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in 1536 , when the occasion of the dispute was thus ended . |
| 21 | ‘ From the moment he caught the bear 's attention there could have been no chance of him escaping . |
| 22 | There were 16 other games going on that day and there could have been a score of bad incidents missed by the referee . |
| 23 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 24 | You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall . |
| 25 | This was where he came from — not in any self-pity — ( although there could have been an excuse for that , in the bitter harvest of the coalfields ) — nor with any attempt to show off ( although the battles he had fought and won to achieve what he did deserved a boast ) — those stories were told and retold to keep the faith . |
| 26 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 27 | There could have been greater consultation with both nursery nurse and life preparation students and due consideration given to the fact that completed craft projects are an important part of a nursery nurse 's final assessment . |
| 28 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 29 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |