Example sentences of "could have been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 2 | I felt that there could have been slightly more involvement with the police at this point , as it would have been quite interesting to hear their views on this problem . |
| 3 | Could have been just nothing-some little schoolboy sin . |
| 4 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 5 | The ‘ next step ’ of setting up a public authority-the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members-to assist actively in enforcing such individual rights could have been too much to swallow for the unions . |
| 6 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 7 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 8 | As instability of h is extremely common , it is remarkable that careful scholars could have been so much aware of this type of evidence , but could nevertheless have rejected it . |
| 9 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 10 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |