Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they would have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 2 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 3 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 4 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 5 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 6 | With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ . |
| 7 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 8 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 9 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 10 | In the May heatwave my feet were considerably cooler and less sweaty than they would have been in leather boots . |