Example sentences of "would [adv] have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 2 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 3 | Without such research there would not have been effective vaccination , antibiotics , analgesics , anaesthetics , transplant surgery , brain imaging , intensive care for babies , and drugs for the treatment of psychiatric disorders . |
| 4 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed , had the populist programme been realized , the effect would not have been direct transition to socialism at all , but the more rapid development of capitalism . |
| 7 | I pause to indicate those would not have been sufficient grades to get her her place at Norwich , close quotations , close brackets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 10 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 11 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 12 | By 1988 the figure would probably have been nearer $55 million . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 15 | I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride . |
| 16 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It would n't have been much use if she had . |
| 18 | There would n't have been any planets or stars then . |
| 19 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 20 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 21 | If I could have answered all the questions it would n't have been any fun at all . |
| 22 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |
| 23 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |
| 24 | We shafted Connelly when we took his shipment of coke but a gang war would n't have been any use to either of us . |
| 25 | There would n't have been any point anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ There would n't have been any point would there ? |
| 27 | There would n't have been those sort of opportunities . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Their overall entitlement would then have been 19 seats , 11 and 10 . |
| 30 | However , the different status of suppliers will pose problems and muddy what would otherwise have been clearer waters . |