Example sentences of "could [adv] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could only have a detrimental effect on jobs in the company 's factories , and it had already started slimming its operations as a result of the significant decline in drilling activity . |
| 2 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 3 | THE New Statesman and Society could soon have a new owner if negotiations with Mr Robert Holmes a Court , the Australian entrepreneur , are successful , writes Georgina Henry . |
| 4 | A Scarborough fun park , which went into receivership last summer , could soon have a new owner and a potential early summer re-opening . |
| 5 | SOUTH Belfast could soon have a new watersports centre . |
| 6 | A self adhesive stamp is now undergoing a six month trial — and the signs are it could soon have the traditional postage stamp licked . |
| 7 | ‘ If I could just have a wholemeal loaf and the papers … and I need a tin of tomatoes and half a dozen eggs . ’ |
| 8 | With Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn improving all the time , we could just have a bright future ahead of us . |
| 9 | You 'd be hard pressed to see how a package costing , say , £49.95 could possibly have a special upgrade price , but Guildsoft manages it . |
| 10 | I could possibly have a half day next Monday . |
| 11 | Brady explained : ‘ Jack Charlton wrote to me , saying he was sorry about the way it had ended and expressing the hope that we could still have a decent relationship . |
| 12 | ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex . |
| 13 | I think that George was a good , honest character who was possibly the best friend that Lennie could ever have the good fortune to be acquainted with . |
| 14 | ‘ It could also have a major effect on existing shopping centres , particularly the smaller shopping parade at Marton . |
| 15 | Increased ET-1 production by the epithelium could also have an autocrine role , by promoting proliferation of type II pneumocytes . |
| 16 | One of the most important corollaries of the hypothesis of the turbidity current was that we could now have the geosynclinal trough without the geosynclinal sediments . |
| 17 | You could even have a do-it-yourself health farm treatment at home , by devoting your whole time to exercise , diet , sauna baths , or any of the programmes you would want from a health farm at about one-tenth of the cost . |
| 18 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 19 | Such a disturbance , particularly at night , could even have an adverse effect on health . |
| 20 | Dick Hern would not be drawn into comparisons with Nashwan at the same stage of his career , but on yesterday 's evidence Hamdan Al Maktoum could well have a natural successor to his great champion . |
| 21 | North Shields could well have no industrial base of any kind by the end of this century . |
| 22 | Secondly , a change in a defendant 's domestic circumstances — eviction from rented accommodation , dismissal from work , loss of family ties — could well have an adverse effect on the choice of sentence following conviction . |
| 23 | They could then have a separate dining room with sliding doors between the two rooms . |
| 24 | This is all the more important because multimedia is not a discrete technology or a communications medium in itself and could potentially have an important role in many different industry sectors . |
| 25 | But , erm I think they could instead have an electric fox , if there 's such a thing ? |
| 26 | He may have concluded after he turned 40 that his career could never have the same impetus . |