Example sentences of "would have be [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’ |
| 2 | It would have been physically and economically impossible for the whole of Africa , for example , to twist and turn its way out of the straitjacket that colonialism imposed upon its economies and industrialize to the point where it could compete effectively on the world market in the space of 10 years . |
| 3 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 4 | If I had our impromptu interview would have been quickly and suddenly over . |
| 5 | In her childhood her father was obliged to take a job , not in the colonial administration which would have been more or less acceptable , but as a manager of one of the Peruvian silver mines . |
| 6 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 7 | It is simply that these conflicts , which once would have been more or less wholly contained within the personality , are now becoming externalized and , indeed , are transforming society . |
| 8 | I would have been more or less like that sir . |
| 9 | Compounding this was the fact that some of the budding sportsmen , who were not from broken homes , remained in the Caribbean with relatives while their parents settled into the new environment , so their contacts would have been severely and massively interrupted . |
| 10 | ‘ This was the last race of the season , so all you had to do was wait one short day , bide your time for twenty-four hours , and the kid would have been home and dry . ’ |