Example sentences of "[adv] they would have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man like that can always replace his front-line troops , so to get only them would have been pointless . ’ |
| 2 | So they 'd have been picking people in their thirties then , now they 'd be in their sixties . |
| 3 | If not they would have been abandoned and merely allowed to fall down . |
| 4 | They must possess some hidden function to compensate their obvious disadvantages , because if they did not they would have been eliminated by negative selection . |
| 5 | It is extremely probable that nine days later they would have been part of the 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne . |
| 6 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 7 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 8 | Rather they would have been bound by Roxborough 's edict to destroy him at whatever cost to their bodies , souls or sanity that might entail . |
| 9 | So whatever fibres were flying around they would have been carrying ’ . |
| 10 | Had there been any butterflies around they 'd have been stacked above his head three layers high , all waiting for a chance to land … |
| 11 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 12 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |
| 13 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 14 | ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’ |
| 15 | In Essex at least they would have been required for aliens only . |
| 16 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 17 | In a very realistic scenario , nine Mitchells were lined-up on the main runway , much how they would have been on the aircraft carrier UDD Hornet ready for their fateful flight to Tokyo . |
| 18 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 19 | However they would have been commonly toothless , since false teeth were a luxury until the nineteenth-century . |
| 20 | No , no it was very much a green field area , and I think if they 'd have wanted to get bomb anywhere they 'd have been directed at Castle Bromwich , which were very much they were building Lancasters and Sterlings and they were very much the heart of the British bomber industry . |