Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the road from Chester to Caerleon was an important strategic line and always partly , if not wholly , under military control ; and if it was fortified , Whitchurch would have been included , and there is no evidence as yet of civil defences there . |
| 2 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 3 | The square piano , mentioned above , signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ was probably made by Johann Gottfried , so Stein would have been in Strasbourg when this instrument with the German action but no escapement was finished . |
| 4 | But the property at Déville would have been sold anyway . |
| 5 | Soon , he 'd accept Lachlan as a better heir than Hector would have been , and all would be well again . |
| 6 | Mr. Fairfax would have been a most difficult customer in all senses of the word . |
| 7 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 8 | If the obstructions and restrictions to flow had been removed and if the York stream had been flowing , I doubt whether any part of Maidenhead would have been flooded in 1990 . |
| 9 | Slater sent Ward away on the left and his cross was met by Allen who unleashed a stunning volley into the net of which Marco van Basten would hve been proud . |
| 10 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 11 | The immediate costs to the United States would have been political , the main gainers being the major gold producers — South Africa and the USSR and those who had previously speculated against the dollar by demanding gold . |
| 12 | Eleanor would have been broad-minded enough to laugh at the whole tale . |
| 13 | Lady Eleanor would have been comfortable but securely kept , and I would have been happy . ’ |
| 14 | Firstly , if you are a woman and were claiming child benefit , HRP would have been credited to you automatically , whereas a man staying at home to care for a child would have needed to arrange the transfer of child benefit to himself . |
| 15 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 16 | In this case , Aldfrith would have been in his early fifties when he became king , yet his marriage to Cuthburh , sister of Ine , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a 718 ) ( unlikely to have occurred earlier ) , and his subsequent fathering of Osred , born c . |
| 17 | I hope that the reader is as awestruck as I am , and as William Paley would have been , by these bat stories . |
| 18 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 19 | It 's a truck the Beverley Hillbillies would have been proud of . |
| 20 | God knows , dear Kataya would have been so proud of you . ’ |
| 21 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 22 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 23 | AMV would have been involved with a company losing clients rapidly . |
| 24 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 25 | He told me he knew that Ken would have been an impossible person to live with . |
| 26 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 27 | The axe was originally a northern European weapon , and a typical design during the time of Barbarossa would have been a simple axe blade balanced by a spike on its reverse . |
| 28 | Richard would have been furious . |
| 29 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 30 | And he says Taylor 's public criticism of him after he had missed a penalty against Brazil would have been enough to get the manager the sack on the Continent . |