Example sentences of "could have been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , last night could have been worse in that respect … |
| 2 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 3 | ‘ There remains a suspicion he could have been involved in some way , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 5 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 6 | ‘ He could have been one of several . ’ |
| 7 | Ravel 's La Valse could have been anti-climactic after this , but it was never allowed to be remotely so . |
| 8 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 9 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 10 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 11 | Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough . |
| 12 | If , alternatively , it originated before Swegen 's arrival , it could have been concerned with some kind of political submission . |
| 13 | What was , what could have been wrong about that ? |
| 14 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 15 | Sometimes I wished he could have been harder on long-winded questioners , at others that he would resist the temptation to get into a private clinch with the politicians . |