Example sentences of "[det] could have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 2 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 3 | The Belfry PGA officials say profit from the match is around £800,000 although they admit this could have been much more if they had allowed in a greater volume of spectators for this , the first ever all-ticket clash . |
| 4 | This could have been problematic among competitors , but was openly aired and dealt with by the group . |
| 5 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 6 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 7 | It is hardly likely that this could have been true of the greatest of them , Whittington , because his father had died with his estate encumbered by an outlawry incurred in a plea of debt . |
| 8 | That could 've been disasterous . |
| 9 | That could have been 1-0 , but this should have been 2-0 . |
| 10 | That could have been nasty . |
| 11 | That could have been nasty . |
| 12 | And there was a small , uncomfortable silence , or so Preston imagined , and a chill in the air , but that could have been real . |
| 13 | That could have been Corosini . |
| 14 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 15 | That could have been crucial and costly . |
| 16 | That could have been painful that could you bitch . |
| 17 | I suppose finding her like that could have been disturbing , but then again Stella is n't easily disturbed , is she ? ’ |
| 18 | But even that could have been faster . |
| 19 | Idling speed and electronic ignition controls are clustered just above the motor — these could have been larger |
| 20 | These could have been gross bawdy parodies in the arena to the great delight of the multitude . |
| 21 | The former rather than the latter could have been true of Brihtheah of Worcester , whose family was that of Archbishop Wulfstan of York and Worcester , but whose kins-men lived in Berkshire , while if Symeon of Durham 's account of the election of Bishop Edmund is correct , Cnut simply confirmed a choice made in Durham . |