Example sentences of "would [adv] have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 2 | If we had not given investors the chance to bid for Ballylumford and taken steps towards privatisation , that vital option would not have been made available to us . |
| 3 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 4 | Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime . |
| 5 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 6 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 7 | Kingfisher says that even if there had been no leak , the bid would probably have been launched this week . |
| 8 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 9 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 10 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 11 | If he had been briefed for a mission in which he did not participate , he would then have been kept incommunicado until he did finally leave . |
| 12 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |
| 13 | Rain fell at Monaco — providentially for Prost , who was being pushed to the extreme by the young Ayrton Senna , and would certainly have been overtaken one lap later . |