Example sentences of "it could have been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 2 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 3 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 4 | It could have been that , I suppose , which made the hairs on the back of my neck feel like they were giving off static . |
| 5 | It could have been that . |
| 6 | I mean twelve months is is the minimum period it could have been more . |
| 7 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 8 | It could have been any letter . |
| 9 | It could have been any one of those residents , even the frailest woman . |
| 10 | Given the richness of interconnections between the boxes , it could have been any one of them that was dubbed the conscious one , so we would need something more by way of justification for choosing any particular one . |
| 11 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 12 | It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle . |
| 13 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 14 | So your on your only answer is , well it could have been any one of these five . |
| 15 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
| 16 | It could have been any of a whole range of other things . |
| 17 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 18 | Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo . |
| 19 | He was describing Denis Law but it could have been this era . |