Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] could have be [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading . |
2 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
5 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
6 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
7 | He was describing Denis Law but it could have been this era . |
8 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |