Example sentences of "would [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 2 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 3 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 4 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 5 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 6 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 7 | With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association . |
| 8 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 9 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 10 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 11 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 12 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 13 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 14 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 15 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 16 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
| 17 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
| 18 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 19 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 20 | Daeve Pope would have been in heavy metal heaven . |
| 21 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
| 22 | In years of high prices 20 per cent would have been in this situation , while in extremely hard years , such as 1801 , the proportion would have exceeded 40 per cent . |
| 23 | Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that . |
| 24 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Had we done that er you would have er you would have been in queer street . |