Example sentences of "would have been [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 2 | There would have been other players between the two extremes of those who required a check and those who did not . |
| 3 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 4 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
| 5 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 6 | I think there would have been various difficulties in Mr. Ashworth 's path had he sought to pursue an argument based on strict estoppel . |
| 7 | As there would have been equal numbers of damaged nuclei , however , in both groups ( upper one third and lower two thirds ) of crypt fractions we feel that this is not likely to be a significant distoring factor in the analysis . |
| 8 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 9 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 10 | The anonymity of the studio rather than a Glyndebourne ambience — I realize there would have been huge problems with taking the performances live , but I 'm not sure Henry Wood Hall was the ideal solution . |
| 11 | To hold the parity , high interest rates would have snuffed out any natural upturn , and there would have been continual rounds of spending cuts and damaging tax increases to keep borrowing from exploding into the stratosphere . |
| 12 | Mary Elliott , mum of Paul 's girlfriend Lynne Rootham , said : ‘ If the baby had n't been up , there would have been three corpses in the house . ’ |
| 13 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 14 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |
| 15 | There would have been different levels of accreditation according to competence , but each level ( Crown , High Court , Appeal Court ) would have been open to both solicitors and barristers . |
| 16 | Around these caputs there would have been dependent settlements with bondmen to work the lord 's land ( called the Mayor settlements in Wales ) . |
| 17 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |