Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 2 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 3 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 4 | It would have been at home in Bournemouth or Scarborough or any one of a dozen British seaside resorts , Christina thought . |
| 5 | If the plaintiffs had refused to pay the illegal fees for a permit to run their vehicles they would have been at risk of having their vehicles seized and their business disrupted . |