Example sentences of "would [verb] been [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another country they would have been called intellectuals , but the English have never admitted to having any intellectuals . |
| 2 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
| 3 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 4 | The real Kung would have been killed months ago . |
| 5 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 6 | A more radical approach would have been to introduce scales of costs into the High Court . |
| 7 | ‘ We would have been travelling players a century ago . |
| 8 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Presumably the next step would have been to send bailiffs in . ’ |
| 10 | You and your friends would have been accorded places of honour , ’ said Oisin , ‘ for certainly you have one of the strangest stories ever told . ’ |