Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall no occasion of feeling ‘ physically better ’ , and that could hardly have been expected , rather a sense of a lantern lighting a gloom , or an astounding view unfolding . |
| 2 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |
| 3 | The circumstances being what they were , Richard must have known I did not , but since he knew almost nothing about me except that I was willing , he could hardly have been expected to care . |
| 4 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 5 | It is sometimes said that in the light of the historical tension between Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad , things could hardly have been expected to turn out otherwise . |
| 6 | if you in fact avoid or reduce your loss , you can not recover the amount so saved , even if the steps that you took were more than could reasonably have been expected ; |
| 7 | A joint venture between competitors or potential competitors may infringe Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome if the participants could reasonably have been expected to enter the market individually , and in such cases the creation of an EEIG will not obviate the need to seek an exemption , or at least a comfort letter , from the Commission . |
| 8 | Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years . |
| 9 | To explore these avenues we usually need to know something about how or why the document was created , and what the writer could reasonably have been expected to know . |
| 10 | This is further emphasised by s2(6) of the Act , which provides that in any prosecution for publishing an obscene article , " the question whether an article is obscene shall be determined without regard to any publication by another person , unless it could reasonably have been expected that the publication by the other person would follow from the publication by the person charged . " |