Example sentences of "would have [been] to the " in BNC.

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1 They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’
2 ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’
3 The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman .
4 He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot .
5 Whatever I read would have been to the accompaniment of music — one of my three favourite composers , Beethoven , Mozart or Schubert — and a long drawn out glass or two of post-prandial port .
6 ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be .
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