Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [be] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors .
2 However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit .
3 A little hesitation would have been in order .
4 A lesser orchestra would have been in danger of simply falling apart .
5 As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions .
6 But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three .
7 A couple of years ago this crowd would have been in Ralph Lauren from head to toe , but today there 's a mixture of Guess , Nautica , Tommy Hilfiger ( ‘ Tommy got the colours ’ ) , Fila and even Duck Head , an obscure Southern prep-wear firm .
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