Example sentences of "could have been [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 2 | The Belfry PGA officials say profit from the match is around £800,000 although they admit this could have been much more if they had allowed in a greater volume of spectators for this , the first ever all-ticket clash . |
| 3 | But they the Prestige Sterling as it 's known over here could have been more successful . |
| 4 | There could have been another contributory factor having a bearing on the origin of man 's appreciation of beauty . |
| 5 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 6 | It could have been any one of those residents , even the frailest woman . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle . |
| 9 | He could have been any one of the brothers . |
| 10 | So your on your only answer is , well it could have been any one of these five . |
| 11 | The iron mine could have been any one of several in this region there are a number of veins or strings of haematite which have been tried , as well as some quite extensive deposits . |
| 12 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 13 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 14 | The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading . |
| 15 | Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo . |