Example sentences of "could [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 2 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 3 | Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " . |
| 4 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 5 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 6 | This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence . |
| 7 | ‘ Nevertheless , it is strange that he should keep such a sum on current account , when he could have been earning two per cent interest . ’ |
| 8 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 9 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 10 | " It 'll be good for a giggle , as Charlie says , " she concluded , with a look which on a lesser woman could have been called coy . |
| 11 | Indeed , had Sheffield referee John Key not been so lenient , Wright could have been dismissed two or three times over . |
| 12 | Thus what looks like a perfect example of a ‘ horns of a dilemma ’ structure , turns out not to be so — it was a game that could have been played two or three lessons or ten lessons later . |
| 13 | The only criticism is that it could have been made available earlier to complement the often impractical tomes which emerged from other quarters . |
| 14 | The implicit monarchical themes may also have their own republican counterparts , which could have been made explicit in further contexts . |
| 15 | The seller was liable even though by a simple process of warming , the bulk could have been made soft . |
| 16 | In retrospect , however , it is difficult to see how , unless the King had shown most remarkable misjudgment , it could have been decided other than it was . |
| 17 | Bristol Crown Court heard expert evidence that the double spinal fracture which left baby Danielle in terrible pain could have been inflicted 24 hours before she died . |
| 18 | While his arguments about capital punishment are still of great relevance , it now seems rather odd that it could have been thought necessary to have to argue against the use of torture for extracting confessions . |
| 19 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
| 20 | Johnson wrote , ‘ We were treated with very liberal hospitality , among a more numerous and elegant company than it could have been supposed easy to collect . ’ |
| 21 | The CPSU could have been considered analogous to a liberal democratic party in some limited respects . |
| 22 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 23 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 24 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 25 | The ‘ rope ’ binding around the front and headstock is very tasty , as are the snowflake fingerboard inlays ( although they could have been installed straighter ) but I 'm not at all sure about the classical-style rosette complete with touches of green and fluorescent pink . |
| 26 | ‘ For all you knew , I could have been sleeping naked ! ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |
| 28 | Architecture clearly reflects the meeting of Muslim and ethnic Chinese : the tiled , domed mausoleum of the King of Hami ( above left ) could have been transported whole from the Middle East . |
| 29 | But admitted Marc could have been knocked unconscious before the fire . |