Example sentences of "could have [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 2 | I do n't think that was true then , though it could have become so as Saddam Hussein faced continued sanctions . |
| 3 | " Nobody could have done more than you , " I said . |
| 4 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 5 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 6 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 7 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 8 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 9 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 10 | ‘ These two men could have gone away until the heat dies down a bit . |
| 11 | This story seems garbled and may be nonsense , but the coincidence between King Haldanus and the Haldenne princeps regis of the Canterbury material remains ; possibly Cnut did have a relative or associate of this name , for the fact that his sister Santslaue occurs only in the Liber Vitae of New Minster Winchester indicates that his kin could have extended further than the threadbare sources reveal . |
| 12 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 13 | I noted , also with satisfaction , that there was hardly an article in the house that could have cost more than £5 . |
| 14 | I could have heard even though closed doors — I stopped my ears . |
| 15 | CATHERINE You could have come here if you needed help . |
| 16 | I would have thought that you could have got more than 32Kb of Upper memory from QRAM . |
| 17 | FINANCIAL advisers and fund management companies authorised by the Financial Services Act could have to find more than £37m to compensate investor losses — a threefold rise in 12 months . |
| 18 | Otherwise , differentiation could have occurred later if Mercury contained significant quantities of the longer-lived slower-acting radioactive isotopes , notably those of uranium ( U ) , thorium ( Th ) and potassium ( K ) . |
| 19 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 20 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 21 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 22 | No one could have fought harder than this Government to maintain the zero rates that we have . |
| 23 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |