Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] could [vb infin] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Viscount Althorp , the late Earl Spencer , may have been proud of his new daughter — Diana was very much the apple of his eye — his remarks about her health could have been chosen more diplomatically . |
| 2 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 3 | Even the row with her husband could have been provoked . |
| 4 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 5 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 6 | It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere . |
| 7 | The only influence on their choice could have been differences in the credit terms . |