Example sentences of "would have be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five hundred posts which would have been either created or protected here will now go overseas . |
| 2 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 3 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 4 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |
| 5 | The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen . |
| 6 | If organised revolt was simmering in the Holy Land , its chances of success would have been immensely augmented if it could be synchronised , say , with uprisings by Jewish communities across the length and breadth of the Roman Empire . |
| 7 | In England there was to have been a four-year transitional period , commencing in 1990 , during which the community charge would have been gradually introduced and rates phased out , but the Secretary of State , in response to pressure from his own party , agreed late in 1987 that with the exception of a handful of London boroughs ( where some flexibility remains ) the community charge should be introduced throughout England in 1990 without any phasing-in period . |
| 8 | ‘ The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where — ( a ) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person , an institution or any other body , either jointly or alone , under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention ; and ( b ) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised , either jointly or alone , or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention . |
| 9 | Like the first type , it always implies incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive event , someone or something which would have been explicitly expressed as the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 10 | I do n't suggest it would have been deliberately divulged but Fleet Street is not the easiest place to keep a secret . ’ |
| 11 | The development of classical electromagnetic theory would have been much impaired if the action at a distance approach had been abandoned earlier in the century because of the superior progress of the field programme . |
| 12 | Small objects ( fig. 7.3 ) that would have been totally destroyed if dated by conventional 14 C can now be sampled for AMS , 5 ; and the benefits in dating art objects are obvious . |
| 13 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 14 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 15 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 16 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |