Example sentences of "could [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , ’ says Jim Whiston , quality manager for C&P , ‘ without the correct accreditations , ICI could eventually have lost the bulk of its engineering plastics business . |
| 2 | The Corporate Finance Department of the licensed dealer pushing the stock , could arguably have alerted the dealing room earlier but it never did . |
| 3 | What could so have soured the Hartlepool atmosphere ? |
| 4 | He could only have satisfied the expectations Labour has raised in Scotland and Wales by putting Labour 's ability to win future British elections at risk . |
| 5 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
| 6 | YOU COULD ALREADY HAVE WON THE £22,500 EXTRA PRIZE . |
| 7 | ‘ Even Ellery himself could not have scored the try better , ’ he insisted . |
| 8 | She was sure that he could not have survived the shot to his heart . |
| 9 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 10 | According to Nelson , divers could not have reached the wreck without cumbersome diving suits and mixed gas air supplies . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal subsequently upheld convictions in the case , saying that although the remarks ‘ raised the appearance of bias ’ , and were ‘ doubly deplorable ’ as involving a respected ethnic minority , they could not have affected the outcome of the trial . |
| 12 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 13 | Certainly , they could not have studied the group if they had been honest about themselves , but perhaps that just means that there are some social contexts that we can not study . |
| 14 | He felt that Woolley had no right to be so contemptuous , so damaging ; Killion alone could not have stopped a bombing raid ; besides , had n't he just destroyed two , maybe three of the enemy ? |
| 15 | By the time they reached Letterkenny they were thirsty , so had a drink , and by the time they reached the shore road between Ray and Drumhallagh could not have pinpointed the cottage in the wood with any certainty to save their lives . |
| 16 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 17 | I could not have poisoned the bread , my lord Niccolò , if you had not introduced it , against explicit orders . |
| 18 | Such differences could not have influenced the interpretation of our findings with respect to the effect of NSAID on duodenal histology , because of two main reasons . |
| 19 | If he had n't agreed to appear we could not have raised the cash to make the show . ’ |
| 20 | But I could not have foreseen the circumstances . |
| 21 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 22 | Although at the time of his discovery Priestley could not have foreseen the use of oxygen in aeronautics as Vital Air for the aeronauts to breathe when the atmosphere became too thin , such use was suggested as early as 1784 . |
| 23 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
| 24 | The decision is justified on the grounds that there was no guarantee that the plaintiff would receive any of the fine and that Parliament could not have intended a workman to be deprived of the chance to seek compensation for his injuries . |
| 25 | Miss Golightly said she has left the car in the back lane behind her house but only late at night when it could not have caused an obstruction . |
| 26 | He said dogs could not have killed the rabbits in the way they had been savagely slaughtered . |
| 27 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 28 | Broadly , if the courts believe the authority would still have granted the consent if they had known that they could not have imposed the condition in question , the permission stands without the offending condition , but if the answer is that they probably would not , then the permission itself falls . |
| 29 | The conspirators at Gloucester could not have planned the soldier 's death , of course , but still she shuddered . |
| 30 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |