Example sentences of "it would have [been] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was quite uncanny — three days earlier it would have been completely covered in snow and they 'd never have seen it : three days later it would have been stripped to a skeleton . ’ |
| 2 | Any notice direction or communication given hereunder by one party to the other if sent by post to the last known place of business of the other party shall be deemed to have been served on the date when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the other party . |
| 3 | She knew , before the talkative nurse had told her so , that it would have been squeezed to that shape by her own body giving birth . |
| 4 | If we had won all the Tests but lost all the one-dayers , then it would have been considered to be a successful trip . ’ |
| 5 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |
| 6 | Moreover , no theft of that sort had been reported to him , which it certainly would have been ; or rather , it would have been reported to Canon Wheeler . |
| 7 | One would have expected that Alfred , as the eldest , would have taken over the family firm or that it would have been left to the four of you jointly . ’ |