Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is capitalist , and everybody will , would 've been given their own land . |
| 2 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 3 | ‘ Ted would 've been lost without me , ’ he boasted . |
| 4 | It 's just as well Paul did n't go with him , cos Paul would 've been singled out as well . |
| 5 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 6 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 7 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 8 | ( This is consistent with the existence of the 14-km-wide Lappajârvi crater in Finland , apparently the result of an impactor of carbonaceous chondritic composition ; this crater would have been excavated by a carbonaceous asteroid 1km in diameter . ) |
| 9 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 10 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 11 | If usury was wrong in itself then the Israelites would have been prohibited from charging interest on any funds lent , not just funds lent to fellow Jews . |
| 12 | The threshing-machine , the power-loom , the spinning-jenny , and possibly the steam-engine , would have been prohibited . |
| 13 | Law 12 Try and Touch-Down states : ‘ A penalty try shall be awarded between the posts if but for foul play by the defending team … a try would have been scored ’ . |
| 14 | If the referee has any doubt as to whether or not a try would have been scored he can only award a penalty , exactly the decision in the final . |
| 15 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 16 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 17 | Frankly , I 'd only have needed to brush my hand against my trouser zip before security guards would have been called for . |
| 18 | Among his own people , Jesus would have been called ‘ Yeshua ’ , which is simply the familiar biblical ‘ Joshua ’ . |
| 19 | This was a case for which a substantial punishment was called for , and in the absence of a plea of guilty , a sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) of at least two years would have been called for . |
| 20 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 21 | In another country they would have been called intellectuals , but the English have never admitted to having any intellectuals . |
| 22 | Had charges been made in excess of the ones recorded here , these excesses would have been called ‘ profits ’ or ‘ surpluses ’ , after maintaining initial capital intact . |
| 23 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 24 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 25 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 26 | If Kelly 's fall had happened on a racecourse , she would have been sidelined as a matter of course . |
| 27 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 28 | However , but for the work of Country Houses Association many would have been lost to the nation . |
| 29 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 30 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |