Example sentences of "they would have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose they 'd have been used to going there before you see . |
| 2 | Participants were asked to write the letter so that , if they had really received it , they would have been delighted at how many of their own aspirations as a teacher had been fulfilled — at least for this one pupil . |
| 3 | Even if intellectuals outside the government had been agreed on the way forward , it is unlikely that they would have been successful in generating widespread enthusiasm for their opinions . |
| 4 | Single people , whether celibate or not , may also be plagued by doubts as to whether they would have been capable of sustaining a relationship in marriage . |
| 5 | If they had not , they would have been vulnerable to a Conservative chancellor 's most unlikely weapon , a windfall-profits tax . |
| 6 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 7 | They would have been close at hand my Lord erm I just do n't know , it may be that , I think they were probably in a vehicle also close at hand ready to . |
| 8 | They would have been invaluable to the inquiry — and to the crew , as book and movie offers pour in — but were lost when the wreck was smashed to pieces on the island 's rocks . |
| 9 | Yet , without doubt , they would have been horrified by Morris Zapp and what he stood for . |
| 10 | Like Jesus , they would have been horrified by the very idea , regarding it as the most appalling blasphemy . |
| 11 | With slight exceptions — for example , in room N12 at Fishbourne , where the mosaicist has misunderstood the relation of a net to the pattern of lozenges and cones — they would have been instrumental in the making of an acceptable product . |
| 12 | On the one hand , they would have been frightened by the urgency of the situation as Jesus describes it — the prospect of an imminent apocalypse , a day of judgement , the distribution of punishments and rewards . |
| 13 | If this could be shown to be the case they would have been entitled to a share purchase order from the Court . |