Example sentences of "would have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the sophistication of modern mining techniques , little damage would have been caused to most other properties . |
| 2 | It is also an excellent example of how modern and antique design and furnishing would have been blended in such a house . |
| 3 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 4 | Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them . |
| 5 | The police officer agreed Anderson would have been charged at that stage if there had been sufficient evidence . |
| 6 | That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear . |
| 7 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 8 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 9 | The duchess being bride to the heir presumptive , with the princes gone , any issue of hers would have been regarded by many as rightful sovereign of the realm . |
| 10 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 11 | Second , he turned down a proposal from the Kennedy administration to create a Multilateral Nuclear Force ( MLF ) , in which British and French nuclear forces would have been integrated with some American forces under NATO command . |
| 12 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 13 | As these activities became more intense a greater demand would have been placed on those who made it possible , the food-producers , who would have been under increasing pressure to maximise output . |
| 14 | In fact that familiarity can sometimes be deceptive ; behind the restored classical vocabulary lurk more of the earlier aristocratic assumptions than would have been conceded by most nineteenth-century historians ; so if anthropological interpretations become less useful , there is still danger in pushing narrowly juridical ones . |
| 15 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 16 | Had we had her account available our guess is that it would have been expressed in such a way as to suggest a quite different kind of story , where personal rather than biological matters were at issue . |
| 17 | Wertheimer 's judgment would have been echoed by most of MacDonald 's followers . |
| 18 | But as he was not an upper-class Londoner , we can guess that his testimony would have been rejected in any case . |
| 19 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 20 | The gross domestic product which would have been observed in that month if the prices in the selected base period had prevailed : this is called real gross domestic product ( or gross domestic product at constant prices ) . |
| 21 | The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ . |
| 22 | Installing an electronic publishing system can bring substantial benefits but it can equally bring headaches that would have been avoided by some simple preliminary investigations . |
| 23 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 24 | He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength . |
| 25 | er the costs which would have been paid in any event that 's all the case is |
| 26 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |
| 27 | He was a nice , quiet , well brought up lad who would have been welcomed by any girl 's mother as prospective husband material . |
| 28 | We assume that he would have been informed of this during his briefing at Eighth Army , and obviously it was no less important for Macmillan to brief Keightley than for him to brief Harding . |
| 29 | There are no objections to this application , though an alternative to the flat roof would have been preferred by some of the councillors . |
| 30 | Since the cost of the highly controversial PWR programme would have been spread over all the stations built , it has now become considerably more expensive per reactor unit . |