Example sentences of "[noun sg] they would have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 2 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ In the Second World War they would have been branded as lacking in moral fibre and been shunned by their service colleagues . |
| 4 | Well the cooper the cooperage they would have been one at , co 's cooperage and then there were one at 's . |
| 5 | This was certainly true of England last Wednesday , their back line in such stark disarray , so frequently outsmarted and embarrassingly wrongfooted by intelligently applied Polish speed and trickery that but for Shilton 's alertness and determined auxiliary support from midfield they would have been overwhelmed . |
| 6 | In the wild they would have been culled . |
| 7 | If this could be shown to be the case they would have been entitled to a share purchase order from the Court . |
| 8 | We all knew why : left with Mum they would have been in pawn before we had the chance to wear them . |
| 9 | In another country they would have been called intellectuals , but the English have never admitted to having any intellectuals . |
| 10 | If they had our electoral system they would have been the government . ’ |
| 11 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 12 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |