Example sentences of "what it would have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 2 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ( 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ( 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 8 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 9 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 10 | Goibniu opened his mouth to say something — Fenella wondered what it would have been — when an arrested look came into his small eyes . |
| 11 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 12 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 13 | ‘ If you do n't go , you 'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life , wondering what it would have been like to really know him . |
| 14 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The court can make such order as it thinks fit to restore the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . |
| 17 | Unigate 's chief executive , Ross Buckland , said yesterday : ‘ By buying the company before flotation , we reckon we have got a very fair deal , compared with what it would have been after flotation . ’ |