Example sentences of "would [adv] have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 2 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 3 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 4 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 5 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 6 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 7 | Even with auxiliary regiments present , there would still have been work for an official to oversee civilian activities . |
| 8 | The clear association of religious cults with the buildings at Chedworth can be much strengthened by the existence of other structures in the vicinity which would probably have been part of a large establishment . |
| 9 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |
| 10 | Exotic animals would probably have been rarities in the British arenae and even then used only for exhibition , as they would presumably have been too expensive to have suffered damage . |
| 11 | If he was shot sitting down there would probably have been blood on the back of his chair … |
| 12 | Pascoe said : ‘ I do understand that it would also have been blackmail but in the circumstances I was n't adopting a very high moral position . |
| 13 | Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies . |
| 14 | All around such a site there would formerly have been fields and other areas of land use . |
| 15 | I do n't know what progress is , but I do n't think that would really have been progress , " I said . |
| 16 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 17 | As my legs and arms suddenly felt shaky like they were going to give way , I decided that in this case ignorance would indeed have been bliss . |
| 18 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 19 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 20 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 21 | To go on with , in the former days , between the Great War and the Second World War , there would never have been men working on cars in the street , as if the place were a communal garage . |