Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 2 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've told me nothing which would have been worth Edwin Garland taking the trouble to put into a letter and leave it with his lawyer . |
| 4 | That evening , though , their ragging had distressed her and but for Colonel Hope 's intervention , she would have been in tears . |
| 5 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 6 | There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial . |
| 7 | ‘ Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’ |
| 8 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 9 | More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use . |
| 10 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 11 | If the plaintiffs had refused to pay the illegal fees for a permit to run their vehicles they would have been at risk of having their vehicles seized and their business disrupted . |
| 12 | We all knew why : left with Mum they would have been in pawn before we had the chance to wear them . |
| 13 | ‘ I would have thought they would have been in contact by now , ’ said secretary David Bowen . |
| 14 | In the May heatwave my feet were considerably cooler and less sweaty than they would have been in leather boots . |
| 15 | Not available on h , housewives , unless they can prove that they would have been in employment , would have been , erm , that they will have been |
| 16 | They would have been in employment , erm , only available up to the age of sixty , then cancelled |
| 17 | Sitwell provides an extended description of the gardens as they would have been in Susanna Jennens 's lifetime , a summary of the more interesting volumes in the library , and a general inventory of the house from Dutch paintings to kitchen pewter . |
| 18 | ‘ If the company had made this kind of claim in a newspaper advertisement , I 'm sure they would have been in breach of the codes of conduct on financial and political advertising , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster . |
| 20 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |
| 21 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 22 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 23 | Without the thriving Fish he would have been in debt . |
| 24 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |
| 25 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |
| 26 | If the bonus had risen in line with prices since its introduction in 1972 , it would have been worth £48.85 last Christmas . |
| 27 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 28 | It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer . |
| 29 | 1-2-3 release 3.4 for DOS makes nothing easier than it would have been under Windows , but even the Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows version needs a major overhaul before many folk will take it seriously . |
| 30 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |