Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 2 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 3 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 4 | That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path . |
| 5 | British support alone would have been at least a mixed blessing . |
| 6 | ‘ If we ca n't get these orders out on time , all the effort we 've put in will have been for nothing . |
| 7 | The trend is towards empowerment and allowing junior employees to take personal initiatives that normally would have been beyond the scope of their jobs . |
| 8 | Worse still would have been for the republic to wriggle out of its predicament , most likely by appointing de Gaulle as an emergency premier so as to appease the army . |
| 9 | Anyone who could put on such an outrageous act — and get away with it — quite clearly ought to have been on the stage ! |
| 10 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 11 | You know probably if you got a younger person , he probably would have been after him , square up to him , and erm . |
| 12 | If the non est factum case had succeeded , paragraph ( g ) also would have been in point , both against the daughter and against the chargees . |
| 13 | But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside . |
| 14 | The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble . |
| 15 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 16 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 17 | We had deduced there must have been at least four : . |
| 18 | It is entirely illegitimate to read post-Freudian standards into a pre-Freudian world or to assume that sexual behaviour then must have been like ours . |
| 19 | It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means . |
| 20 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyone else would have been on their head . |
| 22 | Who else would have been in Mayall 's band at that time ? |