Example sentences of "could [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he could 've been insured do you ? |
| 2 | The absence of such a universally adopted standard whereby the human conscience could have been developed to have a significant influence on human behaviour , has been the cause of much failure in efforts to administer justice . |
| 3 | She could have been trying to picture the place where Zeno and she might meet ; some barren scrap of land inside her head . |
| 4 | A spokesman said they could have been trying to race the MG . |
| 5 | Nothing could have been contrived to accord less well with his lovat green country suit and hat but , he explained , ‘ She simply insisted that I wear it . |
| 6 | He could have been forgiven had he waxed much more lyrical . |
| 7 | Knowing Matilda , the girl could have been sent to do anything . |
| 8 | We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier . |
| 9 | There was medical evidence that her life could have been saved had she arrived at hospital earlier . |
| 10 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
| 11 | Until July this year nothing could have been done to increase his sentence . |
| 12 | Both migrants and non-enrollers believed more could have been done to help . |
| 13 | Just over half ( 55% ) of all applicants said that something could have been done to help them . |
| 14 | Finally , you must always ask yourself " What could have been done to prevent the crisis ? |
| 15 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
| 16 | ‘ I know it 's hard to accept , Dawn , but all that could have been done has been done . |
| 17 | There 's a whole family of equations that could have been differentiated to give that we do n't know what C is . |
| 18 | Since St Petersburg University also employed Konstantin Kavelin ( the prime advocate of conferring land as well as liberty on the peasants ) , Vladimir Spasovich ( an enthusiastic Polish nationalist ) , Aleksandr Pypin ( a cousin of the trenchant journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii ) and Boris Utin ( a former associate of Mikhail Petrashevskii ) , it could have been said to represent almost all the forward-looking opinions of the day . |
| 19 | At that time , the building could have been said to typify the dereliction of the whole London docks area . |
| 20 | McIllvanney also kept a few power-cruisers of his own for charter , and his yard ran an efficient yacht-servicing and marine supplies business , and thus the boundaries between his operations and Cutwater Charters were necessarily blurred and , for all intents and purposes , he could have been said to run Cutwater . |
| 21 | From this it appears that they would have to become unrecognisable as potatoes before they could have been said to have perished . |
| 22 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 23 | We could have been bound to pay enormous sums of money if we had lost . ’ |
| 24 | These women were n't entirely defeated , and they were n't yet buried , their resistance could have been called to bear witness , but Orwell himself participated in the struggle for their exclusion by hiding their history . |
| 25 | Come clean , Anderson ! ’ , could have been understood to imply that Anderson was lying over his version of the incident . |
| 26 | The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished . |
| 27 | The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished . |
| 28 | Though these accident reductions are to be welcomed , they have to be seen in the context of what could have been achieved using alternative approaches , such as those used in Buxtehude or Berlin-Moabit . |
| 29 | The 9000-year-old agriculture there is now based largely on cultigens , including taro and bananas of south-east Asia , arriving before 4500 BP , but earlier phases could have been sustained using native species , including indigenous bananas , yams , pandans and sugar cane . |
| 30 | The people that are in the audience laugh when they see animals that could have been made to do things — just for money . |