Example sentences of "there would [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 2 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 3 | There would surely have been a strong argument for it to take its gauge from the parent line and worry about the break of gauge later , when it met the Cambrian — which of course would probably not have happened . |
| 4 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 5 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 6 | Has a special fondness for books of notable provenance — such as Kenneth Clarke 's schoolboy copies of Berenson 's Florentine Painters laces with exquisite Wykehamist scribblings ; or a volume whose title page is inscribed with the words ‘ To Glen Byam Shaw , without whom there would probably have been no Memoirs of an Infantry Officer , from his friend SS ’ . |
| 7 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 8 | By the time the mare impacts occurred there would probably have been too little dust available to fill the maria . |
| 9 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 10 | I think the reason why is that I never actually told the community or my comrades about the film — if I had there would probably have been an informer somewhere . ’ |
| 11 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 13 | Ardiles said : ‘ When we are back to full-strength there would n't have been a place for him . ’ |
| 14 | If it is n't , it wo n't : since there would n't have been an explosion anyway . |
| 15 | Which there would n't have been , in the normal course of events . |
| 16 | There would n't have been any planets or stars then . |
| 17 | There would n't have been any point anyway . |
| 18 | If Brückner had lived , there would n't have been a complaint made to the widow . |
| 19 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 20 | Of course there are things that we would have liked to have seen such as multi-chapter documents and greater typeface and leading control but then there would n't have been anything to put in Version 4.0 , would there ! |
| 21 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 22 | ‘ No , there would n't have been . ’ |
| 23 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 24 | You see there would n't have been a kiln at the mill before that I think it every house had their own kiln and they dried their own you ken . |
| 25 | There would n't have been a problem . |
| 26 | there would n't have been a problem . |
| 27 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 28 | ‘ There would n't have been any point would there ? |
| 29 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 30 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |