Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 2 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 3 | He looked like a local man , at home and unobtrusive in this comfortable country room as he would have been in the border landscape outside . |
| 4 | The most likely context for discovering the qualities of jade would have been in the course of grinding and polishing axe or adze blades , one of the most widespread components of the Neolithic tool-kit from Europe to China . |
| 5 | And certainly it would have been , it would have been in the past . |
| 6 | Moreover , if we bring to this common confusion the elementary historical observation that these presumptive classes of ‘ art ’ and ‘ sub-art ’ or ‘ non-art ’ tend to shift ( all novels , once , would have been in the downgrading classes ; particular classes of novel , for example ‘ science fiction ’ , move from one side of the divide to another , or are straddled across it ; cinema films are ‘ commercial popular culture ’ but then some films are ‘ high art ’ ) , we become more and more certain that we must refuse that beguiling invitation to leave aside ‘ sociological categories ’ and move to ‘ the works of art themselves ’ . |
| 7 | It was soft , but as brisk and clear as it would have been in the middle of the day . |
| 8 | Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours . |
| 9 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 10 | Though Lancashire are far below full strength , Grayson has earned his place on merit having captained the powerful North Under-21s to the ADT divisional age-group title and would have been in the side even had the Orrell contingent been available , Martin Strett being ineligible having represented the Northern Division in October . |
| 11 | Another foot and he would have been in the brook . |
| 12 | He had offered to walk with her and obviously it would have been in the moonlight , house lights not withstanding . |
| 13 | If the line-out were a simple matter of one man outjumping another , then England would have been in the driving seat . |
| 14 | Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow . |
| 15 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 16 | I was given to believe that would have been in the flat also we thought that st was going to be in there possibly a wife and it was n't said whether there were any children . |
| 17 | Top seed Seles , who has three Grand Slam titles among her nine tournament victories this year , finished off the 14th-ranked Tauziat in 50 minutes , and would have been in the locker room even sooner but for a lapse in concentration during the second set . |
| 18 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 19 | Newry manager Terry Nicholson said : ‘ We would have been in the game with a better chance if we had taken the two chances that came our way early on . |
| 20 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 21 | Effec essentially supply we we 've got over s , over supply and that brings down agricultural prices , erm and so wor world prices tend to be a lot lower than they would would have been in the absence of support . |
| 22 | The approach of the Court was that taking into account the three aggravating circumstances , the responsibility of the offender , the age of the girl and the degree of planning , the proper starting point would have been in the region of eight years : against that were the plea of guilty , the offender 's remorse and the effect on the offender of the double appearance . |
| 23 | It is if you had the other compound where this O H group was on carbon number two as well then those two would be positional isomers cos their carbon skeleton would then be the same and all they would differ is in the position of the O H functional group . |