Example sentences of "there would [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 31 | The 1966 inquiry plodded its way through an incredible number of excuses as to why Blake had not also been transferred and concluded that if Blake had been moved , and the child murderer left at Wormwood Scrubs had then escaped ( rather than Blake ) , there would have been great public criticism . |
| 32 | I can say , however , that there would have been a considerable loss of blood , judging by the position of the wound . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by . |
| 34 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 35 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 36 | Had the Tuairisc model been adopted , there would have been no question of NICRA initiating demonstrations in Dungannon or Derry ; this would have been the responsibility of purely local groups . |
| 37 | Had the crowd not been prepared to accept the directions of the stewards at Carlisle Square and had they made an attempt to follow the original route , there would have been a major clash with the RUC and the loyalists and large-scale violence . |
| 38 | If it had been one of the local men , he explained to Sandison , there would have been no problem , but Maidstone was another matter . |
| 39 | Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe . |
| 40 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 41 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 42 | There would have been more medical concern . |
| 43 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 44 | We noted that controlling for sex would have reduced the size of the original effect , because there would have been a spurious component stemming purely from the fact that more women are in low status jobs and more women go absent . |
| 45 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 46 | On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much . |
| 47 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 48 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 49 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 50 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 51 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 52 | Two had died in infancy , otherwise there would have been nine little mouths to feed . |
| 53 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 54 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition . |
| 57 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | It 's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague , but there would have been practical problems anyway . |
| 60 | There would have been time . |