Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] would [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 2 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 3 | The Duke and Duchess of Windsor would have been marvellous and I suspect they might have done it , too . |
| 4 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 5 | If the obstructions and restrictions to flow had been removed and if the York stream had been flowing , I doubt whether any part of Maidenhead would have been flooded in 1990 . |
| 6 | The axe was originally a northern European weapon , and a typical design during the time of Barbarossa would have been a simple axe blade balanced by a spike on its reverse . |
| 7 | The dismissal of Haig would have been much more serious , but with Law 's advice Lloyd George did not take the risk . |
| 8 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 9 | This reference of Elijah would have been fully understood by Jewish readers and would also account for the crowd response at the end of the story : |
| 10 | Most Labour voters would have known what to do , and the example of Bath would have been multiplied , so denying Major victory . |
| 11 | It is , for instance , improbable that , on a joint assessment of £133. 6s. 8d. , any of the three Thomases of Lavale would have been mere labourers . |
| 12 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the kings of the East Saxons to have acknowledged a dependency on the king of Kent would have been in the oldest known tradition of Kentish-East Saxon relationships , and the same is true of Surrey . |
| 15 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 16 | Admittedly at this distance the idea appears fanciful and even ludicrous ; and no doubt if an enemy landing or landings had taken place , the roads out of London would have been jammed . |
| 17 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 18 | He never explained his reasons ; but obedience to his consecration oath of fidelity to the church of Canterbury would have been one reason , and the desire for absolute stability in gifts to the saints another . |
| 19 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 20 | And a remaining obstacle to firm dealing with the Prince of Wales would have been Baldwin 's deep-rooted distaste for grasping nettles which were not pushed into his hands . |
| 21 | If Audrey Barrie Brown had had her way , Fresden Manor near Swindon would have been a Roman history study centre . |
| 22 | And , had the normally reliable Michael Lynagh been on target with the boot , Australia 's record score against Scotland would have been eclipsed in the Second Test at Ballymore . |
| 23 | And he says Taylor 's public criticism of him after he had missed a penalty against Brazil would have been enough to get the manager the sack on the Continent . |
| 24 | The rise of the speculative office block presents problems with which someone like Nash would have been unfamiliar . |
| 25 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 26 | On the other hand when Jordan 's ( VUPP ) votes were transferred in Stage IX 117 were non-transferable , and equally , if these had been transferable to Burns , the latter 's position compared with Magee would have been unaltered . |
| 27 | The cost of the call via BT would have been £29.25 at the cheap rate after 8pm , BT confirmed . |
| 28 | The House of Lords pointed out in Jobling , that the plaintiff in Baker would have been entitled to compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and there was therefore a danger of over-compensation . |
| 29 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ Many of the problems concerning the children in Orkney would have been solved in the old days by the pressure of the community . |