Example sentences of "would [vb infin] been a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 2 | Before there would have been a striker in there to finish it , so that 's the way to do it , you know the roles are reversed and we 've getting a bit of luck . |
| 3 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 4 | This would have been a correlate of the impact value of the thesis , since it would have indicated the level of acknowledgement of the content of the thesis by the same or other authors . |
| 5 | Indeed the whole house would have been a paradise to Mrs Mantini . |
| 6 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 7 | Any genuinely orthodox unionist would have been a member since late adolescence ! |
| 8 | that would have been a decision of Mr |
| 9 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 10 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 11 | As a result of the improved revaluation changes , explained earlier , this option could be considerably more attractive than it would have been a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |
| 13 | That eventuality would have been a worry for the UN had the Bosnian Serbs said Yes and thereby set the scene for the biggest UN peacekeeping operation ever . |
| 14 | It would have been a way of criticising his regime which it was difficult to counter directly , and , in the short term perhaps most troublesome of all , it was possibly also a source of popular disorder . |
| 15 | ‘ It would have been a chance in a million but maybe next time we will be lucky . ’ |
| 16 | The exquisite timing would have been a credit to the deftest of film editors , but was wasted . |
| 17 | In the so called ‘ good old days ’ , when furniture-making was centred on Shoreditch , there would have been a polisher down the road . |
| 18 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 19 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 20 | But it would have been a disincentive on the rich . |
| 21 | If one of them took it it would have been a goal for certain . |
| 22 | ‘ Had the controlling Labour group in 1985 and 1986 taken action on the reports which were provided , then the cost to the community charge payer would have been a fraction of the £3.7m , ’ said Coun Jones . |
| 23 | It would have been a bit of excitement . |
| 24 | Entrusted to look after the fire or the children , let alone to go hunting , the myopic savage would have been a menace to group security . |
| 25 | Tajan , who estimated the 2,000-lot sale would have been a success at anything over FFr15 million , described the final result as ‘ satisfactory ’ . |
| 26 | I would have been standing erm about two or three foot away from him anyway sir , so that , including the distance height wise , I could have been er from the end of my weapon to his head or any part of his body there would have been a maximum of between four to five feet at least . |
| 27 | Without your help I would have been a frog for ever . |
| 28 | One incident , in the reactor at Greifswald , nearly caused a meltdown in 1976 , an accident that , occurring close to densely populated parts of Western and Central Europe , would have been a disaster of much greater magnitude than Chernobyl . |
| 29 | The appeasement myth was right in this respect : Halifax would have been a disaster for Britain . |
| 30 | If he had , he would have been a disaster in the smoke-filled rooms but a darling with the tabloids and the public . |