Example sentences of "there could have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could have been a greater degree of specialization , but this has been avoided here in order to emphasise the collaborative nature of many of the specialisms to be found in the production function . |
| 2 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 3 | There could have been a similar reaction to the prospect of a Wilson administration and especially with the kind of rough-neck covert operations that were in progress in Ulster . |
| 4 | If it had n't rained the night before the car was burnt , there could have been a major forest fire . |
| 5 | There could have been a fourth cup there , for Great Britain and Ireland had also won the Eisenhower Trophy for the World Amateur Team Championships , providing also the winner of the individual section . |
| 6 | Sergeant Terry Lawton , of British Transport Police , said yesterday : ‘ The train was approaching and if all 450 runners had hurdled the barriers and any had fallen , there could have been a mass slaughter on the line . ’ |
| 7 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 8 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 9 | In that case there could have been no just criticism of Lincoln 's Inn in the way it had adjudicated on the application of a student applying for admission to the Inn who had had serious criminal convictions between 1956 and 1974 . |
| 10 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 11 | For example in the house buying case there could have been an alternative priority that the price must be low enough to allow some of the finance available to be spent on modifications . |