Example sentences of "would have been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 2 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 3 | Normally there would have been two solicitors covering police stations at Stockton , Middlesbrough , Thornaby , South Bank , Redcar and Guisborough . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 5 | There would have been other players between the two extremes of those who required a check and those who did not . |
| 6 | It 's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague , but there would have been practical problems anyway . |
| 7 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 8 | Thin layer chromatography ( TLC ) is considered in some detail ; although paper chromatography and electrophoresis would have been useful additions . |
| 9 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |
| 10 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 11 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 12 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 13 | ( A century earlier these figures would have been 11 years and 10 years . ) |
| 14 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 15 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
| 16 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 18 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 19 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 20 | Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago . |
| 21 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 22 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 23 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 24 | I think there would have been various difficulties in Mr. Ashworth 's path had he sought to pursue an argument based on strict estoppel . |
| 25 | Luckily we were over Germany and not the worst nightmare , over the Channel , as we would have been thirty minutes more into the flight . |
| 26 | As there would have been equal numbers of damaged nuclei , however , in both groups ( upper one third and lower two thirds ) of crypt fractions we feel that this is not likely to be a significant distoring factor in the analysis . |
| 27 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 28 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 29 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 30 | The spread is measured in " ticks " ' with each tick equal to %; and whereas , prior to October 1986 , a typical spread for short-term bonds would have been 2-4 ticks ( the lower for the more liquid stocks , the higher for the less liquid ) it is now 1-2 ticks . |