Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 2 | If the Government had listened to the police and taken prompt action on any of those warnings — action for which they could have secured all-party support — I have no doubt that some of this summer 's tragedies would have been avoided . |
| 3 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 4 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 5 | ‘ No person who shows that he has been tried by any competent court for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for any other criminal offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial for that offence save upon the order of a superior court made in the course of appeal proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal ; … |
| 6 | New Zealand also has the flightless kiwi ( its national symbol ) and was once dominated by the flightless moas , of which there could have been about 25 species . |
| 7 | ‘ I was going to say that I do n't know of anybody who could have killed my uncle . ’ |
| 8 | So in a group you do n't need one of everybody you could have just half of these but everybody could fall in maybe two roles within that group . |
| 9 | I mean there 's , there 's the practical side of actually having , I mean well there 's various aspects of it you could have someone as a figurehead |
| 10 | Some sort of private grudge would seem to have been responsible ; Do you know of anyone who could have wished him harm ? |
| 11 | I know you and the value of what we could have shared . |
| 12 | If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me . |
| 13 | Well , you know , if you had n't been quick and run into me he could have caught up with you . |
| 14 | In other words , the DTI had failed to understand fully its own legal powers with which it could have put pressure on Barlow Clowes . |
| 15 | If only Harry were to fall in love with her they could have a wonderful life together . |
| 16 | I was not in love with Terry , never had been ; I went after him , deliberately , because I was ripe for an affair and I thought with him I could have one and enjoy it and still feel like the nice clean girl-next-door afterwards . |
| 17 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 18 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 19 | The Myrcans looked on with what he could have sworn was approval . |
| 20 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 21 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 22 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 24 | Thus there are two different intensional relations behind the two different versions of the second sentence in ( 21 ) , even though it is hard to think of any circumstances whatever ( other than metalinguistic ones ) in which they could have different truth values : ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( We use as the symbol for assignment of equation . ) |
| 25 | If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform ( and in which they could have afforded to act without alienating a numerically significant part of the population ) , it was that of higher education . |
| 26 | I would rely on Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev that the only possible way in which they could have reached the eminence they have today is through membership of the party . |
| 27 | This early atmosphere was not one in which we could have survived . |
| 28 | I welcome the declaration , which is a big step forward , but , given British experience and law , we could have had a directive in which we could have taken the lead . |
| 29 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 30 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |