Example sentences of "[vb base] that [pers pn] would have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts . |
| 2 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 3 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 4 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 5 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 6 | We assume that he would have been informed of this during his briefing at Eighth Army , and obviously it was no less important for Macmillan to brief Keightley than for him to brief Harding . |