Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 2 | There would have been other players between the two extremes of those who required a check and those who did not . |
| 3 | It 's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague , but there would have been practical problems anyway . |
| 4 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 5 | Thin layer chromatography ( TLC ) is considered in some detail ; although paper chromatography and electrophoresis would have been useful additions . |
| 6 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 7 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 8 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
| 9 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 11 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 12 | I think there would have been various difficulties in Mr. Ashworth 's path had he sought to pursue an argument based on strict estoppel . |
| 13 | As there would have been equal numbers of damaged nuclei , however , in both groups ( upper one third and lower two thirds ) of crypt fractions we feel that this is not likely to be a significant distoring factor in the analysis . |
| 14 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whoever it was , he and Kieran Goss would have been kindred souls . |
| 17 | It would have been double standards . |
| 18 | The anonymity of the studio rather than a Glyndebourne ambience — I realize there would have been huge problems with taking the performances live , but I 'm not sure Henry Wood Hall was the ideal solution . |
| 19 | ‘ The court sees no ground for saying that , for present purposes , it makes the slightest difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick . |
| 20 | It is true that it would make no difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick , provided the charge was laid under section 15(1) . |
| 21 | To hold the parity , high interest rates would have snuffed out any natural upturn , and there would have been continual rounds of spending cuts and damaging tax increases to keep borrowing from exploding into the stratosphere . |
| 22 | In these studies , Bjornsson used groups of 24 or more readers ( of whom half at least would have been native speakers ) and calculated correlations to check the reliability of their judgements , On sets of 100 texts , the correlations were on average 0.99 , which suggests that for adults at least , there is a high level of agreement about what is difficult . |
| 23 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 24 | There would have been different levels of accreditation according to competence , but each level ( Crown , High Court , Appeal Court ) would have been open to both solicitors and barristers . |
| 25 | Around these caputs there would have been dependent settlements with bondmen to work the lord 's land ( called the Mayor settlements in Wales ) . |
| 26 | Another , similar , was on a house which stood where the Institute ( now a shop ) stands , and many of the nooks and crannies of the wandering streets would have been tempting places to sit out and spin in summer weather . |