Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been alone with Luke , no doubt his words would have been spiked with malice . |
| 2 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 3 | The effect of the drag reduction kit modifications on the aircraft 's pre- and post-stall behaviour could not be documented precisely but it is unlikely that their effect on the stall speed and characteristics would have been significant . |
| 4 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 5 | Such lists would have been regarded as underground literature during Sir Keith Joseph 's tenure . |
| 6 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 7 | For example , the need for some modifications became apparent ; the rephrasing of some questions and a refocusing of emphasis towards texts used in Secondary schools would have been helpful . |
| 8 | The mechanisms of control and the latitude which such schools would have are still unclear and are being studied by the Ministry of Education . |
| 9 | Such chemical signals would have been the forerunner of modern-day hormones . |
| 10 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 11 | It would have been better placed a couple of weeks later ; at least the readers would have been familiar with the mood and pace of the album . |
| 12 | And just like Windsor , the Hofburg Palace was uninsured because premiums would have been so high . |
| 13 | Premiums would have been $10.8m lower |
| 14 | Had he said this minutes earlier , the baying journalists would have been soothed into silence . |
| 15 | Frankly , I 'd only have needed to brush my hand against my trouser zip before security guards would have been called for . |
| 16 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 17 | The special regulations , as approved by the Cabinet on July 1 , would have allowed Sharon to circumvent building and land use approval procedures for three months , during which time 3,000 prefabricated units would have been imported and assembled in up to nine locations around the country . |
| 18 | In his long and ultimately successful battle against the latter organization ( a European army in which French , German , and other European units would have been integrated under American command ) de Gaulle developed all his objections to supranationalism . |
| 19 | A decade earlier their husbands would have been in sweaters or soft collars . |
| 20 | In that case the beneficiaries would have been Muslims but they could just as easily have belonged to a different group . |
| 21 | In order to make this analysis meaningful we have used the findings reported in Chapter Four in order to make a prediction about whether or not clients would have been at home had they not been supported by the Home Support Project . |
| 22 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 24 | Had the war not intervened , it is certain that new cars would have been introduced and the track relaid as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the system . |
| 25 | At least three of these cars would have been useful to Leeds , when the remainder were sold to them , if only as a source of spare parts . |
| 26 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 27 | This deity has been found on a pottery mould ( fig. 14.20 ) at Corbridge , the great military works depôt and supply base , where local craftsmen would have been working . |
| 28 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 29 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 30 | The consequences of successive devaluations of the ‘ green ’ pound were also referred to by Mr Ramsay , who said ‘ With the compensation calculated at 80p per ecu as it was last September a high-yielding arable farm of 1,000 acres would have been over £48,000 worse off between 1993 and 1995 but now , with the rate at 98p per ecu that same farm 's cross margin will drop by just under £2,000 . |