Example sentences of "would have [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 2 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 3 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 4 | The trend is towards empowerment and allowing junior employees to take personal initiatives that normally would have been beyond the scope of their jobs . |
| 5 | Characteristically within traditional professions such as Law and Medicine , it would have been beyond the bounds of decency to put any of one 's peers or the profession itself in a morally ambiguous or cynical light . |
| 6 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 7 | That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path . |
| 8 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 9 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 10 | The upper team would have been on the logging track above the natural amphitheatre when he broke for cover . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 12 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 13 | If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment . |
| 14 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 15 | In a very realistic scenario , nine Mitchells were lined-up on the main runway , much how they would have been on the aircraft carrier UDD Hornet ready for their fateful flight to Tokyo . |
| 16 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 17 | The ketos , to which the hero is advancing would have been on the missing part of the stone . |
| 18 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 19 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 20 | Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices . |
| 21 | Okay which would have been on the front of your paper . |
| 22 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 23 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 24 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 25 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 26 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 27 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 28 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |
| 29 | The police would have been through every drawer with a toothcomb in their search for clues ; there was nothing to be gained there . |
| 30 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |