Example sentences of "could have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier . |
| 2 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 3 | Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value . |
| 4 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 5 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 6 | Carr , who went the distance with Wharton last time , protested about the stoppage , after 2min 7sec of the eighth round , but if referee Dave Parris had allowed the fight to continue the Australian could have been in serious trouble . |
| 7 | If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble . |
| 8 | This could have been from various modes of formation , or from the presence of appreciable quantities of short-lived quick-acting radioactive isotopes , such as 26 Al . |