Example sentences of "could have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no precipice except in the painting ( though no doubt Junge could have painted the downward view if asked ) and Deborah Kerr has to act shock/horror , which she is perfectly capable of doing , and does splendidly . |
| 2 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 3 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 4 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 5 | If the child in the cradle on whom Carabosse lays her curse after the other fairy godmothers have given her everything that makes a girl lovable could have understood the ordinary life she was forfeiting , she would have renounced their fairy boons ; given the choice , Caterina would have rejected her charms too , in order to be closer to her sister , to be more like Rosa . |
| 6 | I could have recorded the mysterious Mr Archer 's phone calls and had them directed to the office while I was there . |
| 7 | I thought the 238S could have handled the top end slightly better ; the lead guitar suffered from lack of cut because of the DBX noise reduction , but without it there was too much tape hiss to produce any acceptable recording . |
| 8 | And that delay meant Mrs Fraser had arrived in the Republic of Ireland , when prompt action could have prevented the whole mess . |
| 9 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 10 | This volcanic cloud could have warmed the upper atmosphere in the tropical latitudes and blotted out the differences in temperature between surface and upper air that when combined with the effects of the earth 's rotation , cause the trade winds . |
| 11 | That acquisition could have scuppered the whole effort , given AT&T 's long-standing efforts to establish its own Tuxedo as the de-facto standard for Unix TP . |
| 12 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 13 | But who could have foreseen the amazing house-price boom of 1987 and 1988 ? |
| 14 | It is less sure that anyone in 1975 could have foreseen the dramatic increase in the demand for places in the ten years to follow . |
| 15 | Anger flared , for surely they could have dressed the poor thing better . |
| 16 | Powerful , calloused , sunburnt , they could have twisted the white swan neck of Lady Eleanor as easily as a twig . |
| 17 | Several hypotheses have it that land-use change , primarily growth of forest or development of heathlands following fires , logging and abandonment of agriculture , could have caused the recent acidification of low-alkalinity surface waters . |
| 18 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 19 | It could have turned the other way ; in case you might think this was a simple transaction — it was not . |
| 20 | Only such a leap could have spawned the dynamic activity of the Bank staffers in the field in the early and mid 1970s . |
| 21 | Otherwise , it could have followed the Dutch example . |
| 22 | It would have been too expensive in electricity to pipe hot water from the house , which is about 40ft away , although the pipe run could have followed the cold water supply , which is taken , underground , from the house . |
| 23 | Only the French could have developed the coordinated look of Rodier Hommes . |
| 24 | Only the French could have developed the coordinated look of Rodier Hommes . |
| 25 | ‘ I could have killed the bloody swine ! ’ |
| 26 | The relation between high activity of TNF and partial remission of leukemia in the patient reported suggests that TNF could have influenced the transient inhibition of blast cell proliferation . |
| 27 | ‘ And , of course , ’ I added wearily , ‘ though Dacourt 's horse killed Waldegrave , anyone could have dragged the drunken priest into the stable . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The murderer could have destroyed the whole house . ’ |
| 29 | ONLY a Satanic mind could have placed the death-dealing bomb at the hospital , said Alliance deputy leader Seamus Close . |
| 30 | How much more depressed he would have been , if he could have seen the silent trombonist in years to come , ensconced in his offices , sifting the sparse and scattered remains of his life . |