Example sentences of "would [adv] have been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 2 | I pause to indicate those would not have been sufficient grades to get her her place at Norwich , close quotations , close brackets . |
| 3 | If Golding had replaced bushes by reeds , or river by pond , these would not have been stylistic variants , but would have brought about a change in the fictional world . |
| 4 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 5 | There would n't have been any planets or stars then . |
| 6 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 7 | Their overall entitlement would then have been 19 seats , 11 and 10 . |
| 8 | However , the different status of suppliers will pose problems and muddy what would otherwise have been clearer waters . |