Example sentences of "[conj] would have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 2 | The that condition should or would have been drawn to his attention , that is the major factor in this dispute which goes . |
| 3 | For example , while LMS gives the governing body the power to cut their school 's staffing establishment , they also have the power to exceed the level that would have been fixed by the LEA . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Mr Wilson 's anonymous advisory committee was forced to accept many applications from little-known galleries that would have been rejected in earlier years . |
| 5 | Let us imagine the unspeakable agonies of horror that would have been suffered by someone in — I will not say a less exalted — a different position who had been similarly vilified . |
| 6 | With a ruthlessness that would have been complimented by Ace if he 'd known , she threw her mind totally back into her work . |
| 7 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 8 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 9 | However , all this is doing is attempting to build into the machines the intelligence that would have been exercised by a skilled worker in going through the labour process . |
| 10 | 2.42 As regards the savings that would have been made by the deceased , Lord Reid thought that the widow and daughter would have had an interest in any capital that the deceased might have accumulated before his death , but he concluded that the widow might have died before her husband whereas the daughter would almost certainly have survived him . |
| 11 | it would be the matter that would have been raised at our board meeting and relayed on |
| 12 | Another way of looking at the usefulness of tests is to evaluate the productivity of employees selected on the basis of a test , as compared with those applicants that would have been selected without the test , ( 1950 ) first demonstrated that the expected increase in output is directly proportional to the validity of a test . |
| 13 | For each tax year the net earnings after tax that would have been received by the plaintiff if he had not been injured should be calculated , and from this net figure should be deducted the net earnings that the plaintiff has in fact received : the difference is the plaintiff 's loss during the tax year . |
| 14 | The utility that would have been obtained with certainty prior to the union setting its monopoly wage rate must now be modified to take into account the uncertainty that is introduced with the unemployment probability . |
| 15 | Correlations calculated this way are generally smaller than those that would have been obtained by correlating the averages but because they do not average out the variance from different subjects they provide a more realistic assessment of the size of an effect for any individual subject . |
| 16 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 17 | So moving £10,000 from a deposit account to diminish a debt will save this person £1,092 per annum at an opportunity cost — the interest that would have been earned on deposit — of £710 for a basic rate taxpayer or £473 for high earners . |
| 18 | It 's not really helpful to be able to say , that the amount of money is too great , to refer to percentage increases which are higher than the figure that would have been included by erm erm an opposition group . |
| 19 | The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable . |
| 20 | It studies ‘ snapshots ’ of the successive positions , and so discovers specific points of contact with coincidentally present blocks ( such as D ) which will interrupt the fall that would have been predicted by a theoretical physicist from equations and measurements describing A and B. As in this case , many detailed relations between blocks are implicit in the diagrammatic representation which could be explicitly stated only with the greatest difficulty . |
| 21 | He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength . |
| 22 | Installing an electronic publishing system can bring substantial benefits but it can equally bring headaches that would have been avoided by some simple preliminary investigations . |
| 23 | And they wore silk socks that would have been frowned upon at the more establishment country clubs in the Hamptons . |
| 24 | Among the errors that would have been eliminated by a more careful reading is the statement that Frances Power Cobbe was the only Unionist among these four women ; Millicent Fawcett was at least as opposed as Cobbe to Irish Home Rule ; and only Josephine Butler actively supported it . |
| 25 | And it worried me that these are the sort of people that would have been advised into the committee . |
| 26 | This compartmentalization on stage reflects the administrative separation between the different ensembles in the king 's employ and further suggests that each ensemble had its own integrity and its own performing conventions that would have been respected in varying contexts . |
| 27 | Mill-designing architects and mill builders avoided any superfluous decoration , dispensing with the external rendering and cornices between the storeys that would have been demanded by classical precedent . |
| 28 | His film , Kwietniowski straightforwardly claims , is one that would have been approved of by Noel Coward 's unconscious . |
| 29 | The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria . |
| 30 | In fact that familiarity can sometimes be deceptive ; behind the restored classical vocabulary lurk more of the earlier aristocratic assumptions than would have been conceded by most nineteenth-century historians ; so if anthropological interpretations become less useful , there is still danger in pushing narrowly juridical ones . |