Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm quite happy here , ’ and she would have been if only Peony could be pleased . |
| 2 | Well , you would have been if you 'd come here … |
| 3 | With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ . |
| 4 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 5 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 6 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 7 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 8 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 9 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 10 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice . |
| 12 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |
| 13 | Bird shot it would have been or somewhat larger . |
| 14 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 15 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 16 | Lessingham looked at Hilary and said coolly : ‘ It would have been if there had been the slightest point in it . |
| 17 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 18 | At the dinner the topic of conversation came round to a discussion of how historically interesting it would have been if people living in Saxon or medieval England had produced scale models of houses built in those days . |
| 19 | the structural reform will create 3,650,000 losers ( i.e. their income will be lower than it would have been if the old system had continued and been up-rated in the normal way , and there had been no transitional protection ) compared with 3,190,000 gainers ( the Government claims that 5,000,070 gained ) while 1,680,000 people remain unaffected . |
| 20 | Their Lordships are satisfied with the course taken by the trial judge and are further satisfied that the adverse effect on the jury from the defendant 's point of view was in the end no greater than it would have been if counsel had not made his improper observation . |
| 21 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 22 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . ’ |
| 23 | ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 24 | The court has power to make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the transaction had not been entered into and also , in this case , for protecting the interests of persons who are the victims of the transaction : subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 25 | It must have been seventy below zero outside ; Jezrael wondered how much worse it would have been if Mars were at aphelion . |
| 26 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 27 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 28 | In Fig. 10–3 the increase in output is not as great as it would have been if this interest rate effect had not occurred ( in which case the rise in output would be , to , rather than , to ) . |
| 29 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 30 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |