Example sentences of "[conj] [det] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church .
2 We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago .
3 6d. and many would have been under the average .
4 In normal times , Selborne and Steel-Maitland would have been tolerated and both would have been at least partially silenced by the restraint of office .
5 It might well be that upon their selection the Roman Catholics were appraised of the atmosphere in England and advised not to be too obvious in their worship , galling though that would have been to those proud and independent men .
6 On the majority view the defendant was actually left free to work for a subsidiary of GUS which was not involved in the mail order business in the United Kingdom even though that would have been in clear breach of the restriction .
7 Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police .
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