Example sentences of "would have [been] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose Delia had become friendly with Angy and gone to her flat that afternoon She 'd have been one of the last people to see her alive . ’ |
| 2 | Because that 's when she 'd have been fifteen . |
| 3 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 4 | four years to wait and I 'd have been sixteen . ’ |
| 5 | And If I 'd have been ninety six |
| 6 | There 'd have been ten , maybe ten coopers . |
| 7 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 8 | yeah so she 'd have been twenty |
| 9 | No cos she 'd have been twenty then would n't she almost |
| 10 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 11 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 12 | Methodically , meticulously , he studied every aspect of Kylie 's talent and music before committing himself to what would have been one of the most ambitious projects even he had attempted . |
| 13 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 14 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Your husband would have been one of us . |
| 16 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 17 | We felt almost guilty that our unremarkable house in Edinburgh would have been one of the dozen oldest buildings in Austin . |
| 18 | If their sales had been included , it would have been one of the few wholly independent records to reach the Top 40 . |
| 19 | Surely she would have been one of the first to hear . |
| 20 | An option for those sure of the system they wanted would have been one of the many mail order suppliers like Elonex , Opus , or even a sister company of PC World , like Computers by Post ( see panel : A Brief History ) . |
| 21 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 22 | Campese 's decision robbed 60,000 in the stadium , and countless millions around the world , of what would have been one of the most intense and fascinating finales to the World Cup , with England only three points behind , their heads up and winning score in sight . |
| 23 | He never explained his reasons ; but obedience to his consecration oath of fidelity to the church of Canterbury would have been one reason , and the desire for absolute stability in gifts to the saints another . |
| 24 | Norman Rockwell would have been one hundred years old next year . |
| 25 | Duncan looked at the people passing by , wondering if he would have been one of them had Grandfather Ilya Denknetzeyan decided not leave Russia . |
| 26 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 27 | At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans . |
| 28 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 29 | To these might be added the enigmatic , though incomplete , courtyard building at Corbridge , which , at 65.5 by 67 m ( 214 by 219 ft ) , would have been one of the largest of all the structures in the small towns . |
| 30 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |