Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] there would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor . |
| 2 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 3 | If she 'd fought the rape there 'd have been skin from her attacker under the fingernails . |
| 4 | Behind the hound there would have been a rectangular plate containing an iron rivet . |
| 5 | Profit commented : ‘ The desire to reach the summit , the anguish there would have been if we 'd come close but misses it , pushed us forward , despite our exhaustion . |
| 6 | If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’ |
| 7 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 8 | In the past there would have been a major famine ; now they have simply called on their own 30-million-ton reserve of wheat . |
| 9 | If three giants had come through the door there would have been no choice but to retreat . |
| 10 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |
| 11 | In the film there would have been something terrible awaiting him . |
| 12 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 13 | If we 'd had a child there would have been movement ; we 'd have watched him growing up , seen him change , worried about his schooling , and so on . |
| 14 | Even if it is likely that a Labour administration would have failed in the round to solve Britain 's fundamental problems , there is little doubt that at a minimum there would have been a substantial redistribution of income and some attempt to reform the City , regulate public utilities more strongly and determinedly tackle the homelessness problem . |
| 15 | If I was n't an animal-lover there would have been no problem , but when it comes to catching pigeons I draw the line at the fish-hook method on humanitarian grounds . |