Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 2 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 3 | It was a technological triumph and a magnificent intelligence coup , or would have been had the Russians not know about it all the time . |
| 4 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | And it was desirable , or would have been , if his style had been less intimidating , if the proposed freedom had offered a colour , light or warmth to compensate for astral and angelic voices . |
| 7 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 8 | As stated in the prototypical CKR , Sea Waybill Rule 4 provides that the sea waybill will be subject to the application of any international convention or national law if such a source of law is compulsorily applicable or would have been if a bill of lading ‘ or similar document of title ’ had been issued . |
| 9 | Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and " horridness ' , in Frizingley . |
| 10 | The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) . |
| 11 | Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences . |
| 12 | None of her college friends knew where she was staying , or would have been the slightest bit likely to make such a gesture , even if they had . |
| 13 | In order to give effect to the original intention of the Directive , the House of Lords held that the Regulations should be construed purposively and read as if after the words " immediately before the transfer " the following words were added " or would have been so employed at the time of the transfer if he had not been unfairly dismissed in the circumstances described in reg 8(1) " , ( ie for a reason in connection with the transfer ) . |
| 14 | The that condition should or would have been drawn to his attention , that is the major factor in this dispute which goes . |
| 15 | No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount . |
| 16 | This authority has been doubted because of the conflict that would arise were the receiver and the directors to have different views on whether an action should be brought and also on the handling of any counterclaim . |
| 17 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 18 | If I could 've worn a red jersey that would 've been it . |
| 19 | Although these actions could eventually lead to improved records management generally , the high cost in terms of staff involvement that would result was felt to outweigh the benefits that would be gained . |
| 20 | I can only wonder at the fish that would have been caught when the river had fully fined down . |
| 21 | Mill-designing architects and mill builders avoided any superfluous decoration , dispensing with the external rendering and cornices between the storeys that would have been demanded by classical precedent . |
| 22 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 23 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 24 | The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable . |
| 25 | Oz formed his face into a solemn mask that would have been funny if Jinny had not been trying to keep him happy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 28 | So moving £10,000 from a deposit account to diminish a debt will save this person £1,092 per annum at an opportunity cost — the interest that would have been earned on deposit — of £710 for a basic rate taxpayer or £473 for high earners . |
| 29 | Among the errors that would have been eliminated by a more careful reading is the statement that Frances Power Cobbe was the only Unionist among these four women ; Millicent Fawcett was at least as opposed as Cobbe to Irish Home Rule ; and only Josephine Butler actively supported it . |
| 30 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |