Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Defeat would have been catastrophic to morale . ’ |
| 2 | At least three of these cars would have been useful to Leeds , when the remainder were sold to them , if only as a source of spare parts . |
| 3 | Furthermore , if a citizen suffers loss as a result of failure by a Member State to implement a directive , the citizen may be entitled to recover damages for that loss from the State even if the relevant provisions of the directive are not directly effective and even if , had the directive been implemented , the citizen would have been entitled to damages from another citizen rather than the state . |
| 4 | If the plaintiffs ' allegations are proved , the defendants would have been liable to them in negligence before the passing of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 . |
| 5 | Perhaps one is being a little punctilious , but some clarification of these , and other , matters would have been helpful to the novice . |
| 6 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 7 | Most of these errors would have been fatal to the survival of the organism or its ability to reproduce . |
| 8 | Certainly the ethos of an Augustinian priory with its stress on the expression of an inner religious faith in the active life of the community would have been sympathetic to the characteristic concern Hilton displays in his writing not just for professional religious but for all those , whether in active or enclosed life , who feel that their religious faith holds the secret of a dimension of fulfilment to which they desire access . |
| 9 | if defendant had paid into court and plaintiff had accepted , plaintiff would have been entitled to an order for costs to be taxed if not agreed . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if the room cues are rotated so that , for instance , the clock now appears in the south instead of the north , the rat will become confused , swimming to the region of the tank at which the shelf would have been relative to the clock if the latter had not been shifted . |
| 11 | Your husband would have been entitled to it . |
| 12 | Saxon Christianity in Kiev would have been tantamount to an attack , at least culturally , on the Byzantine flank . |
| 13 | Whether such changes would have been acceptable to Contact users is open to speculation since social interaction and individual autonomy were the group 's main attractions . |
| 14 | Such a copious supply of pure water would have been beneficial to the occupants , but it could also have been the centre of a water cult . |
| 15 | Alone both Yorkshire and Tyne Tees would have been vulnerable to takeover , when rules lapse in 1994 to allow rival TV companies to make bids for each other . |
| 16 | High water tables would have been conducive to hot springs at elevated locations , without requiring changes in the intensity of heat sources . |
| 17 | It is unlikely that this rate would have been acceptable to all members . |
| 18 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 19 | Foreign policy would have been liable to majority voting as well , despite the obvious failures of the European Community in this sphere in the Gulf and in Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | Above all , whoever occupied the throne would have been subject to the powerful pressure that Nicholas experienced from the United Nobility , the Orthodox Church and reactionary leaders of the Right . |
| 21 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 22 | Whether that contract or those contracts consisted of a time charter , a voyage charter or one or more bills of lading contracts or some or all of such contracts would have been immaterial to the defendants . |
| 23 | On the contrary , law-giving was an important part of Christian kingship , and there are consequently good reasons for thinking that some aspects of Wulfstan 's activities would have been welcome to him , for he was certainly concerned to appear the Christian king ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 24 | It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place . |
| 25 | The House of Lords pointed out in Jobling , that the plaintiff in Baker would have been entitled to compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and there was therefore a danger of over-compensation . |
| 26 | There is no evidence that Rolle received his Bachelor 's degree , and his frequent scathing remarks on the uselessness of scholarly argument as a means to the knowledge of God indicate that the intellectual training offered at Oxford would have been uncongenial to him . |
| 27 | It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors . |
| 28 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 29 | And there is an indirect contrast , whose significance would have been clear to the early Christian readers , but which loses a little of its impact two thousand years later : |
| 30 | Much of Hollywood 's mass audience would have been oblivious to this but intelligent and respectable film-goers must have been very aware that society was shaping their film-going . |