Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 2 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 3 | Stock would have been excluded from coppiced areas but the importance in the medieval scene of wood-pastures for stock-feed ca n't be over emphasised ; nearly every entry in Domesday quotes the area of woodland and the number of pigs it supports . |
| 4 | The simple explanation would appear to be that Jacques worked in the family business on the rue du Harlay with his father and older brother Jean , Martin 's successor in 1712 , until Jean 's death in 1720 , when , as noted above , the workshop ceased , at which time the remaining stock would have been liquidated for reasons of inheritance . |
| 5 | Since the cost of the highly controversial PWR programme would have been spread over all the stations built , it has now become considerably more expensive per reactor unit . |
| 6 | There are no objections to this application , though an alternative to the flat roof would have been preferred by some of the councillors . |
| 7 | But for the woodwork and some fine saves by Andy Rhodes , defeat would have been turned into debacle as Saints ' defence disintegrated under persistent pressure by their Tayside rivals . |
| 8 | The entry would have been obtained by fraud in the presenting of a forged transfer for registration . |
| 9 | Course I mean the m fella would have been stabbed to fucking death if he had n't . |
| 10 | Apart from the bronze bolt , the other parts of the lock would have been made from iron , including a spring to hold the pins in place . |
| 11 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 12 | In retrospect , it is highly likely that if Lederle had responded to my letter and Burroughs Wellcome had not , the whole idea of immunosuppressive chemical therapy would have been dropped as an interesting , but unsubstantiated , speculation . |
| 13 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 14 | The deal would have been done by now but for Venables 's reservations about playing two penalty-area sniffers together without an orthodox No. 9 to provide an aerial target . |
| 15 | The three biggest US airlines — American , United and Delta — had hoped that approval of the BA-USAir deal would have been linked to their gaining a bigger foothold in the UK market . |
| 16 | The three biggest US carriers , American Airlines , United Airlines and Delta Airlines , had hoped that approval of the BA-USAir deal would have been linked to their gaining a bigger foothold in the UK market and argued that the original $750 million proposal would have given BA wide entry into the US market while restricting US airlines from further expansion into the UK . |
| 17 | Although the LDP 's overall majority in the House of Representatives ensured that the proposal would have been approved by the lower chamber , the party 's minority position in the House of Counsellors ( where it controlled 113 of the 252 seats ) made approval in the upper house unlikely . |
| 18 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 19 | This would have produced the outcome that the manager really wanted , and the overload of work would have been dealt with . |
| 20 | Instead a terrible toll of the Crown Prince 's manpower would have been exacted by the French 75s and machine guns in their prepared emplacements , at relatively little cost to the defenders . |
| 21 | In that case ACT would have been paid at source but there would be no additional charge . |
| 22 | The fact that any receipt would have been signed by the hypnotist and not Kylie seemed to have conveniently escaped the zealous Williams . |
| 23 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 24 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 25 | He thought that the Americans were right in their estimate that any truce would have been abused by the North Vietnamese to strengthen communist forces in South Vietnam . |
| 26 | The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically . |
| 27 | One wonders whether an England bowler would have been picked for a tour after a start like that . |
| 28 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 29 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 30 | In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries . |