Example sentences of "would have been [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests .
2 Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses .
3 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 .
4 But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded .
5 Meantime according to IDC Europa figures , DEC took a 15% — £52.5m — share of the £350m UK workstation market last year , although more than 50% of those workstations it shipped were configured with VMS or OpenVMS , and few if any Alpha-based models would have been included in this total .
6 This building has an entrance opening directly into the farmyard and many of the farm 's activities , such as manure collection , would have been concentrated in this area .
7 There was to be no let-up : by the end of the Civil War at least 200,000 enemies of the Nationalist ‘ crusade ’ would have been executed in this way .
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