Example sentences of "would have be [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yes , the trend is the same as the national one , there is an increase in arson , possibly that 's also influenced by the fact that we 're better at detecting arson and we 're becoming increasingly more so as the years go by , and calls that would have been recorded as unknown in the past , would now be recorded as this . |
| 2 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 3 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose that would have been regarded as subversive by some governments in the bad old days , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Although the returns would have been regarded as uneconomic two years ago , government advisers will pay out the second-lowest bill for underwriting in the history of public sell-offs . |
| 6 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 7 | Up to half a dozen years ago any invitation by the government that offered users meaningful involvement in planning community care would have been seen as unrealistic and even cynical . |
| 8 | The contempt lay in the fact that the issues would have been prejudged and improper public pressure would have been exerted on Distillers to cause them to settle . |
| 9 | Most of the money would have been spent or committed . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt that economically inactive lone mothers would have been classified as unoccupied in the census , but so might other people . |