Example sentences of "[adv] would have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perfumery is perhaps an even more ancient art than dyeing ; it is a more obvious constituent of a plant , so would have been experimented with earlier , to disguise bad smells if nothing else , such as those of rotting meat and decaying vegetation . |
| 2 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 3 | Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection . |
| 4 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |
| 5 | One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure . |
| 6 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 7 | The report that hon. Members receive and that the public pick up outside would have been looked at from the point of view of the client , the promoter and the public interest . |
| 8 | To go home would have been to face not only the critics but the people who had helped . |
| 9 | The last carts from King James had contained candles , and they stood in front of the altar : stout towers of wax that once would have been raided and eaten . |
| 10 | It is a mark of these half-crazed times that my programme of meetings , which once would have been dominated by political and scientific academy briefings , now includes something calling itself the Academy of Entrepreneurship , and an appointment with accountants advising more inward investors . |
| 11 | So I mean sooner or later would have been had to do , do up you know ? |
| 12 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 13 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |
| 14 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 15 | I believe it was towards the end of the financial year , the figures probably would have been updated at er the end of nineteen eighty six |
| 16 | She probably would have been laughing too . |
| 17 | The plaudits — which indubitably would have been bestowed on Tukalo had a try materialised — were further erased as Watsonians claimed a try three minutes later . |
| 18 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 19 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 20 | Whereas if it had been standing room , we really would have been standing . |
| 21 | But few miners believe these figures ( given by the metallurgy minister ) ; if they were true , more than the 19 steel mills closed so far would have been affected . |
| 22 | Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed . |
| 23 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 24 | Of course , anyone forecasting such a scenario just five short years ago would have been certified completely insane . |
| 25 | Many things that a decade ago would have been regarded as the province exclusively of the statutory sector now fall into the voluntary sector . |
| 26 | ‘ They were the sort of people who twenty-five years ago would have been deferred to because they were gents . |
| 27 | Lloyd 's house was a three-bedroom , semi-detached in a street which about sixty years ago would have been classed as a greenfield development . |
| 28 | Although Duncan and Goodwin develop a particular analysis of local government which explains its existence largely in terms of uneven development and the representation of differentiated local social relations ( discussed extensively in Mark Goodwin 's chapter which follows ) , their conclusions here would have been shared far more widely both by academics in the field of local government studies and by many local government politicians ( such as Blunkett and Jackson , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Jovially swapping innuendos which a year earlier would have been seen as bad taste sexism by the singer . |
| 30 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |