Example sentences of "could [verb] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mustelids very like modern stoats and weasels are the most common carnivores at Westbury ( apart from the cave bear which was probably only partly carnivorous anyway ) and they could have contributed to the small mammal faunas at Westbury . |
| 2 | At least two other specific developments could have contributed to the present sea-bird problem . |
| 3 | The report suggested that this was the reverse of the settings which would be expected and that this could have contributed to the homing errors . |
| 4 | This was important to the early Christians because they faced the charges that Jesus was not really dead when he was taken down from the cross and that , even if he was , the women could have gone to the wrong tomb on the Sunday morning . |
| 5 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 6 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 7 | If the trial judge dismissed the petitioner 's action either on the compromise issue or on the misconduct issue , then the petitioner could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 8 | Erm , you could have got to the close a little bit earlier , but then it , I think you were just finding your words , that was good , well done . |
| 9 | ‘ Now ’ , he said , ‘ I could have spoken to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed land before me . ’ |