Example sentences of "would [verb] be no [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier .
2 If the Syrians had not permitted Hezbollah to have a presence in the southern suburbs of Beirut , there would have been no Iranian presence there .
3 If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority .
4 he would have had fucking pen there would have been no working for them !
5 There can be little doubt that under the terms of the Common Foreign and Security policy , there would have been no European response to Saddam Hussein 's aggression .
6 The torpedo must have been dropped in the Harbour — there would have been no other reason for entering the Harbour .
7 Had that principle ruled post-war planning , there would have been no new towns .
8 Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase .
9 Without dégorgement and Clicquot 's remuage , the Champagne process would have been no different from the medieval ‘ rural method ’ utilised elsewhere .
10 I should add that the outcome would have been no different even if the Act of 1985 had applied since Mr. Thomas concedes the time when the cause of action arises must be the same under both Acts .
11 Without this theme , the novels might not have survived , let alone become minor classics ; but without characters properly created to promote the theme , there would have been no organic life in the books either .
12 Had this been the case , there would have been no Christian gospel to preach : no incarnation of the Son of God , no real solidarity between him and us , no expiatory death upon the cross .
13 A draw would have been no more than Wolves deserved , but Kiwomya , Ipswich 's most impressive forward , was not finished .
14 The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains .
15 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 .
16 It would have been no more than I deserved . ’
17 There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies .
18 Thus , but for their own agricultural ministry , there would have been no American criticism , nor would there have been such a well-publicised fillip for the Californian sparkling wine industry .
19 The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter .
20 Had the King simply accepted MacDonald 's resignation , either there would have been no National Government , or , if there had been , it would not have been led by MacDonald .
21 Without the King 's initiative there would have been no National Government .
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