Example sentences of "would [verb] been [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 2 | Since the railway would have been Bishop 's Castle 's main link with the outside world in 1891 , we are strongly inclined to accept and the Committee will be discussing the details in future meetings . |
| 3 | It would have been Madonna 's choice too by the way . |
| 4 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 5 | Normally the trip to St Tropez would have been Alyssia 's idea , but when , the following morning , Piers suggested it her only reaction was to wince with distaste . |
| 6 | Those would have been Hester 's instructions , Ruth thought . |