Example sentences of "[pron] would have be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " vulgar tongue " abounded with colloquialisms suggesting that a particular term conferred a legitimacy which would have been made questionable by a more generalised synonym for stealing . |
| 2 | Such costs compare with many tens of billions of dollars a year saved in wages and productivity which would have been lost due to sickness caused by air pollution and for the annual benefits ( reduced medical treatment ; less damage to buildings , crops and forests ) to the nation as a whole of a less polluted society . |
| 3 | It is shown that there was very often little to be gained from approaching government institutions with attitudes which would have been considered proper by British administrators . |
| 4 | Family planning was in the air ; newspapers and women 's magazines were openly discussing family planning by the 1930s in a manner which would have been considered outrageous just ten years before . |
| 5 | The violent , dangerous and delinquent youth of the magistrates and NAS were also present in the statements of individual Chief Constables and representatives of the Police Federation who articulated publicly their own theories on the causes of crime in a manner which would have been thought unthinkable a few years previously . |
| 6 | She would have been kept busy and occupied , and well away from the sight , smell and temptation of food . |
| 7 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
| 8 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 9 | If they had come from any other man or woman in the kingdom of Scotland , they would have been considered treasonable ; writing to her brother Henry , Margaret made constant pleas for the English to send troops into Scotland to restore her as Regent and crush any opposition to her and the Earl of Angus . |
| 10 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 11 | One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray . |
| 12 | If the accused had taken the paper itself , he would have been found guilty of theft of that piece of paper if he did not intend to return it , but that charge does not reflect the nub of what the accused did , namely cheat . |
| 13 | I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away . |
| 14 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 15 | Isabel wondered why she had n't thought of using the laundry gate herself , before she realised that it would have been kept locked . |
| 16 | Not only did his broadsides provide the only small check there was against wholesale malai excesses , they alerted the population to what would have been kept secret . |