Example sentences of "would [verb] [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | But a few years ago , there 's no way Ray and his leggy friends would have been flatmates . |
| 3 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
| 4 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 5 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 6 | The most useful form of illustration would have been sets of drawings on papyri or thin wood tablets , loosely bound together . |
| 7 | There would have been maids than . |
| 8 | Not for her , one feels fairly sure , would have been sables worn as a chemise , nor Savonnerie carpets used as underfelting . |
| 9 | In that case the beneficiaries would have been Muslims but they could just as easily have belonged to a different group . |
| 10 | ‘ Eighty years ago her subjects would have been knights in armour , ladies in wimples and distress … now , in 1939 , they were bodiless heads , green horses and violet grass , seaweed , shells and fungi ’ , all executed in the style of Dali . |
| 11 | I think we would have been friends . |
| 12 | These would have been collaterals in whom Ivy might have delighted . |
| 13 | After all , many of those he was up against would have been miners , like his five brothers , like Ifor who could carry a bag of cement under each arm . |
| 14 | If Hand could not do so for 65 theses , then tracing 550 authors of Scottish geology theses would have been even more daunting , and there would have been difficulties in selecting a statistically valid sub-set for a questionnaire . |
| 15 | The political speakers , who would have been YCs in their day , knew that they should be brief . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He described his co-workers as ‘ the people who would have been poets in the sixties and they 're looking at computers as their medium of expression rather than language ’ ( Jobs , 1984 : 18 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There would have been objections if areas of Scotland or Wales had been linked with parts of England for convenience er of this review , but it seems Cornwall once again as a distinct and separate identity , continues to be ignored . |
| 20 | Nowadays they 're holidaymakers ponytrekking … once they would have been shepherds riding down from the Welsh mountains . |
| 21 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 22 | A smaller and cheaper source would have been items like the decorated bronze disc or phalera found at Godmanchester . |
| 23 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 24 | There would have been riots if we had let thousands of kids come along like that , ’ said Waterman . |
| 25 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 26 | There would have been dances in them . |
| 27 | I would have been miles away instead of leaving a message for you where to find me . ’ |
| 28 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 29 | There were lots of hopefuls who would have been journalists if they had pursued a career , or who now wanted to learn . |
| 30 | I think the players would have been men enough to tell me to my face . |