Example sentences of "[subord] it would have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 2 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 3 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 4 | less funding than it would have been expected to have . |
| 5 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the overall result is richer than it would have been had the speaker just produced [ 14b ] , and , I believe , richer than it would have been had the speaker produced an alternative metaphor in which the pound was actually mentioned . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the overall result is richer than it would have been had the speaker just produced [ 14b ] , and , I believe , richer than it would have been had the speaker produced an alternative metaphor in which the pound was actually mentioned . |
| 8 | Once it would have been greeted with disbelief , and even now it is bound to jolt those who watched the original , anarchic troupe of strolling players perform works like Joe 's Drum or Wee Red Hen in community venues or miners ' welfare halls , and who followed with greater or lesser sympathy John McGrath 's attempts to identify a Scottish theatrical idiom for the mixture of radical politics and popular culture he aimed to put on stage . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 10 | I remember seeing it when we went to that party , and I know , cos it would have been lit up |
| 11 | In a statement , the BBC said the Panorama programme was bound by the Scottish ruling because it would have been seen in Scotland . |
| 12 | You can even scan for viruses that would normally be missed by a standard scanner because it would have been hidden away in an archive file . |
| 13 | He retorted that the choice had been to close the paper and he wished he had done that because it would have been remembered as a decent publication . |
| 14 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 15 | A string function which returns the string form of the numeric argument as it would have been printed . |
| 16 | Continuation of inflation at this kind of rate would cause the whole problem to recur in that the value of gold stocks , at the new fixed price , would be regarded as insufficient in relation to the rising value of trade , and speculation on a further gold price rise , against the dollar , would redouble ( as it would have been proved so profitable the first time ) . |
| 17 | Indeed , he opposed rigid grounding in English grammar and urged that Latin be taught by the direct method , as it would have been had it been a living language . |
| 18 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |