Example sentences of "could have been saved " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , an enormous amount of unproductive work could have been saved if phenomenological analyses were first performed to ‘ see ’ if this supposed psychological state actually existed … ( p. 1236 ) . |
| 2 | We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier . |
| 3 | These are often animals not seen by the vet for years , who could have been saved , if seen earlier . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even then he could have been saved , so the story goes , if the giantess Thokk had agreed to shed life-giving tears for him , but for unspecified reasons she refused . |
| 6 | There was medical evidence that her life could have been saved had she arrived at hospital earlier . |
| 7 | He remained convinced that if he could have spent ten hours a day working on Event , ‘ wining and dining advertisers and so on ’ , the magazine could have been saved . |
| 8 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 9 | And the court was told that the victim 's ear could have been saved — but he failed to take it with him to the hospital . |
| 10 | Yesterday Mrs Justice Ebsworth , sitting at Teesside Crown Court , was told the life of the child could have been saved if doctors had monitored the foetus ' heartbeat after Mrs Busuttil , then 26 , was admitted into Middlesbrough 's Parkside Hospital in 1984 because her general practitioner detected irregularities . |
| 11 | A leading surgeon told the inquiry that Martin Robinson , 25 , could have been saved if he had been rushed to a neurosurgical hospital after complaining of severe headaches . |
| 12 | Asik became angry as he thought of all the people in his village who could have been saved by the fruit in the lorry which had just passed him , throwing up bucketfuls of dust into his face . |
| 13 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |