Sentence examples for could have detected from inspiring English sources

It seems unlikely that these animals could have detected seismic "pre-shocks" that were missed by the sensitive vibration-detecting equipment that clutters the world's earthquake laboratories.

Lawyers for Mr. Fellin said a CAT scan could have detected the internal bleeding.

The BP disaster – imagine if AI were watching over those systems and could have detected the disaster earlier.

And had such a registry been in operation, he said, it could have detected the Sprint Fidelis flaw much earlier.

The great unknowns are whether military cameras could have detected a small hole on the wing, and whether any repair or rescue efforts would have worked.

A Fire Department report concluded that had Mr. Vargas completely inspected the building, he could have detected rotten pillars in the basement that caused the collapse.

For one thing, researchers couldn't have detected it until recently.

Some security experts say that even a vastly improved screening system could not have detected those weapons.

Or take ruby red dominoes of blue fin tuna, arranged in a horizontal line so straight that a geometry geek with a protractor couldn't have detected any deviation.

"We have concluded that we and the referees could not have detected the problems that fatally undermined the papers.

Yet even an outsider looking in could probably have detected that something was off.