Example sentences of "could have been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |
| 32 | The course provided tremendous excitement and thanks largely to the 18th hole I doubt whether it could have been topped by any course in the country . |
| 33 | It could have been recycled from another person 's toiletry . |
| 34 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 35 | It could have been sharpened by any straight blade in the kingdom . ’ |
| 36 | A satisfactory dividing line could have been drawn in these terms . |
| 37 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 38 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 39 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 40 | His prejudiced expectations of orientalism were confounded by restrained furnishings which could have been chosen by any Home Counties newly-wed and an offer not of tea but of gin . |
| 41 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 42 | If she does not , they will have the consolation of knowing that they did all and more than could have been expected of those unfamiliar with the assistance which the court can give in such situations . |
| 43 | There was even a well equipped playground which could have been dropped into any English park almost unnoticed but which looked rather incongruous in the centre of a Mexican prison complex . |