Example sentences of "[Wh det] would [vb infin] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
| 2 | Well I 'd like to speak about the gallery I like to speak for myself and er just the visual arts and er the gallery when it first started was a gallery very much appreciated by appreciated by the Eastern Region er they saw it as potential a very significant gallery in the whole region which would have been a marvellous thing for Harlow to have . |
| 3 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 4 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 5 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 6 | I very much resented them , because they drew my mother to what would have been a private retreat for me . |
| 7 | He offered her a massive £1 million fee for what would have been a historic concert series . |
| 8 | Horrified security staff rushed to Boris 's aid and saved him from what would have been a hairy trip home . |
| 9 | With regard to Pentos , the Portfolio was uninvested at the start of the period and stayed that way throughout , thereby preserving itself from what would have been a painful experience . |