Example sentences of "would have [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 2 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 3 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 4 | Whatever values and viewpoints were embodied in the acts would have ultimately been those that were acceptable to the promoters . |
| 5 | ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . |
| 6 | ‘ That would have just been a dream , ’ said Libab . |
| 7 | So that I think , had the subject been injustice , it would have just been just as er , exciting as justice , fact or fiction . |
| 8 | As far as social policy is concerned , four main ways of different importance and popularity have been cited : expenditure on the social services has used up labour and capital which would have otherwise been employed in the wealth-creating manufacturing industries — this is the de-industrialisation thesis . |
| 9 | This would put the vendor in a better position than it would have otherwise been in had the sale not taken place . |
| 10 | And we had an example of that , a good example this year of course with erm that in that , in the spring of this year John Major erm had to call an election before June twentieth I think the date was because by that time then parliament would have automatically been dissolved . |
| 11 | In the First World War they would have simply been taken out and shot . ’ |
| 12 | Most probably , if had not been articulated in times of war these artistic tendencies would have simply been considered marginal . |
| 13 | These changes were aimed at speeding up trials and saving government expenditure by allowing some cases which would have previously been tried in the Supreme Court moved to district courts , and by having other cases tried by police courts instead of district courts . |
| 14 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 15 | At almost a year old , Piment would have already been experimenting with solid food for a few months , though probably more in play than serious eating . |
| 16 | So , when Freud 's Totem and Taboo appeared in nineteen thirteen , it would have instantly been compared with these , and that is the genre of er , anthropological writing in which it , it would of been immediately been at home . |
| 17 | But the man beside her would no more have walked or ridden a motorcycle than he would have willingly been parted from this — this blatant symbol of money . |
| 18 | Before a demoralising defeat when challenging Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship two years ago Biggs would have probably been too dangerous a proposition for Mason but something has gone from him since then and he was unable to fulfil bold pre-fight assertions . |
| 19 | The bronze fastenings dated the wreck after 1750 ; prior to 1750 , she would have probably been fastened with iron and tre-nails ( wooden dowels ) . |
| 20 | This would mean that the early universe would have probably been very chaotic and irregular because there are many more chaotic and disordered configurations for the universe than there are smooth and ordered ones . |
| 21 | ‘ Had the centre not been there to keep an eye on me , I would have probably been admitted to hospital the previous week and kept in . ’ |
| 22 | Mind you their rate of exchange if if you 'd have bought all pesetas in this country it would have probably been a better rate of exchange for you . |
| 23 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 24 | The Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs is edged by the traces of thousands of acres of late prehistoric fields and would have merely been one lane among many passing through a totally cultivated landscape . |
| 25 | In time the Pomeranian Poles would have undoubtedly been absorbed into the German-language community as their forbears had been in previous centuries . |
| 26 | In a more successful town the house would have undoubtedly been destroyed long ago . |
| 27 | Had such language been used of an Anglican or Roman Catholic Eucharist the user would have quickly been castigated by Victorian Nonconformists as a ‘ wafer worshipper ’ . |
| 28 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 29 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , they had remained loyal to the meetinghouse style they would have still been criticized for not having a style which met the needs of their time . |