Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [to-vb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 2 | The writing would have appeared to have been on the wall from the moment Lincolnshire 's Sarah Bentley ( now representing Surrey ) , let slip a 5–1 opening set lead in the first rubber , a lead that included a missed set point . |
| 3 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 4 | If he were Donleavy , he would have had to have been at least ten years older than that to have served in Vietnam . |
| 5 | The court rejected the " uncommercial " suggestion that the reference , to achieve those results , would have had to have been to arbitration , and held that it was irrelevant whether the architect issued his certificate mistakenly , because both parties had taken the risk he might do that . |