Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away .
2 Phillips what a wonderful ball that almost turned out be there because er Crosby had it not been a better defender would have been in behind Whitlow .
3 Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter .
4 ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’
5 The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play .
6 THE FOREST COLONIAL folding chair would have been entirely at home on the deck of any of the great ocean liners of the 1830s .
7 So the pattern would have been perhaps towards marrying later , or certainly having children later and then perhaps moving out of London .
8 And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region .
9 An effort of this kind would have been quite beyond the office 's powers at any time until well into the nineteenth century .
10 IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox .
11 If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter .
12 The hysteria in their colleague 's voice would have been enough by itself to ensure their prompt response , but the unmistakable background of gunfire added urgency to the situation .
13 And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders .
14 If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him .
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