Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the beneficiaries would have been Muslims but they could just as easily have belonged to a different group . |
| 2 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 3 | 8.1.4 any other act or thing by which but for this provision the Guarantor would have been released [ other than a variation of the terms of this Lease agreed between the parties that is prejudicial to the Guarantor ] Until the case of P & A Swift Investments v Combined English Stores Group plc it was believed that the benefit of a guarantor 's covenants could only be enforced by a successor in title to the landlord 's reversion , where there had been an express assignment to it . |
| 4 | There is no doubt at all that without the peacekeeping force the war would have been worse than it was . |
| 5 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that had they not scored those four goals the game would have been drawn . |
| 7 | ‘ The court sees no ground for saying that , for present purposes , it makes the slightest difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick . |
| 8 | It is true that it would make no difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick , provided the charge was laid under section 15(1) . |
| 9 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 10 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , we have pretty well absolutely ruled out any notion of terrorists , ’ said Milton ‘ This is precisely the kind of job the IRA would have been falling over themselves to claim as their own , and it would be a ludicrous target for any other international loonies we can think of . ’ |
| 12 | If it had been pouring with rain the walk would have been cancelled , and that would have been more in keeping with Lucy 's mood , which was one of deep depression . |
| 13 | No fifteenth-century peasant or artisan expected to be buried in a coffin ; by contrast no noble would have been subjected to shroud burial in the churchyard . |
| 14 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 15 | Had he gone out with the schedule the results would have been chaotic , yet he himself had not seen these double questions until they were pointed out to him at the internal testing stage . |
| 16 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 17 | If she had been an adult the position would have been different . |
| 18 | Had there been only one man in the carriage with the woman the explanation would have been obvious . |
| 19 | Without the existence of the SCCs the JAC would have been forced to create its own committee system at the level of the school ; as it was , the SCCs brought with them a network of contacts , an established structure , and a large number of volunteers , amounting to some 5,000 by 1914 . |
| 20 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 21 | Without the passage of this legislation the government would have been unable to refinance the debt , to meet payments to defence contractors , or to pay federal employees . |
| 22 | He says that if there had been a bit less water in the river the wave would have been bigger . |
| 23 | Without Coton the score would have been at least 7–1 . |
| 24 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 25 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
| 26 | The last thing the family would want is for there to be any public disturbance . ’ |
| 27 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 28 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 29 | If the bullet had taken a slightly different path the results would have been catastrophic , ’ said Mr Watson of Homerton Hospital . |
| 30 | The two men met in Toledo in the spring of 1087 and with the exception of El Cid 's old enemies , there was general rejoicing from those who believed that if Rodrigo had commanded the army at Sagrajas the outcome would have been different . |