Example sentences of "would [verb] been [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A draw would have been no more than Wolves deserved , but Kiwomya , Ipswich 's most impressive forward , was not finished . |
| 2 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 3 | In the final analysis the entrepreneurial solution would have been no more than an evasion of the underlying causes of Nizan 's personal crisis of 1926–27 . |
| 4 | It would have been no more than I deserved . ’ |
| 5 | There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies . |
| 6 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 7 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 8 | up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you . |
| 9 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 10 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 11 | Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas . |
| 12 | Perhaps the end would have been the same in any case . |
| 13 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 14 | However , after paying travel expenses her take-home pay would have been the same . |
| 15 | It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms . |
| 16 | " It would have been the same any time we came , " said Fiver . |
| 17 | And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have been the same if I had … ’ |
| 19 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 20 | If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less . |
| 21 | Clearly , the answer was ‘ No ’ , and one suspects it would have been the same answer whatever the political flavour of the government in office at the time . |
| 22 | ‘ Even if I had , do you think it would have been the same with them as it was with you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've no idea if it would have been the same or not , ’ she said rather wildly . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , come , Sir Edmund , he could have been a Cardinal of Rome and his fate would have been the same . |
| 25 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 26 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 27 | Mrs Cottrill , 56 , said : ’ We wonder whether the verdict would have been the same had Fiona been French . ’ |