Example sentences of "one could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in life no one could have called him dull-eyed or sharp-faced . |
| 2 | No one could have doubted its paternity . |
| 3 | No one could have been better suited for the role , nor taken to it with more enthusiasm . |
| 4 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 5 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 6 | Had it been April , one could have understood . |
| 7 | However , one could have done without the editors ' patriotic digs at Australian journalists who are certainly no more chauvinist than British fans with typewriters ( or indeed television cameras ) . |
| 8 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 9 | No one could have doubted that West Indies would fight back . |
| 10 | No one could have power over others any more . |
| 11 | For instance , English coins of the thirteenth century were still available in the fifteenth , so the loss of one could have taken place at any time during its three centuries of circulation . |
| 12 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 13 | No one could have mistaken the hesitation in his manner . |
| 14 | In some ways , thought the rector , observing the cock on St Andrew 's spire gilded with the setting sun , one could have no better epitaph . |
| 15 | No one could have answered better . ’ |
| 16 | Secondly , they were treating babies as not yet formed adults since their nervous system did not yet contain all the adult structures which they imagined , without any evidence , would be necessary before one could have an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 17 | What no one could have bought , what was n't for sale at any price , was Alison 's way with the place . |
| 18 | But no one could have envisaged then with just what power . |
| 19 | The soil is very fruitful ; there are corn , cattle and horseflesh in abundance ; and by sending away to Hampshire all the inhabitants not required in the fields one could have held out there several months . |
| 20 | No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms . |
| 21 | No one could have imagined that the simple kindness of two individuals and a rescue society would call the British judicial system into question — and cost so much |
| 22 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 23 | No one could have staged the now infamous Sheffield rally , a turning point in the campaign , unless they were imbued with a belief that electors would appreciate being treated as mere objects to be manipulated . |
| 24 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |
| 25 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 26 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 27 | Yet once they have collaborated in this verbal insincerity they reveal an extent of human viciousness no one could have expected . |
| 28 | It implies that if one achieves a desirable end ( in terms , say , of pain prevented ) but at a greater cost of suffering than was necessary for it , one 's act was right , though not the best , even if one could have achieved that end by a less drastic means . |
| 29 | Had this been the only evidence of any religious aspect of Chedworth , one could have considered the nymphaeum merely as an unusual feature . |
| 30 | A great deal of publicity has surrounded Esa-Pekka Salonen , but not one could have predicted the triumph of Il prigioniero by Dallapiccola . |