Example sentences of "could [adv] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 2 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
| 3 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |
| 4 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 5 | These young people were not only happy they were roaring drunk and there could easily have been a double inquest with that other young man . |
| 6 | Thin , slope-shouldered , raincoated and thoroughly inconspicuous , he could easily have been an innocent Sunday evening wayfarer , but for the fact that Harry was now convinced he was not . |
| 7 | After all , the culprit could even have been the tame squirrel . |
| 8 | The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer . |
| 9 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 10 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
| 11 | Although reported as poor in the Domesday Book , Thwing could well have been an important place in medieval times , the prosperity of the village being a direct reflection of the influence and affluence of the Thwing baronial family , who were amongst the most distinguished and prosperous families in northern England . |
| 12 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 13 | Another larger issue could well have been the major redirection of Bernician military might and political power needed to secure an advance north of the Forth . |
| 14 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |