Example sentences of "it could have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) A legal estate may subsist concurrently with or subject to any other legal estate in the same land in like manner as it could have done before the commencement of this Act . |
| 2 | It is hard to imagine what role it could have played in the prevention or aftermath of events such as the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion in the North Sea , the Zeebrugge ferry disaster or the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat on the Thames , for instance . |
| 3 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 4 | Some thought Labour would have had its ideal leader , a courageous genius in party management , and with a streak of inspiration in philosophy , if it could have bred from the two of them . |
| 5 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 6 | She had no clear idea of how it could have rolled from the table , for it had seemed perfectly secure when she had put it there . |
| 7 | So ESA has recently had to consent to launch Exosat on one of NASA 's Delta rockets — an option it could have taken in the early 1970s which would have allowed a launch in 1977 . |