Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my programmes would have been working and people would have seen what I was trying to do . " |
| 2 | of my constituents would have been worse off . |
| 3 | My actions would have been totally different , erm . |
| 4 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 5 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 6 | Compounding this was the fact that some of the budding sportsmen , who were not from broken homes , remained in the Caribbean with relatives while their parents settled into the new environment , so their contacts would have been severely and massively interrupted . |
| 7 | A decade earlier their husbands would have been in sweaters or soft collars . |
| 8 | Living in such a house would nonetheless have exposed Leapor to a more leisured way of life than she had known before , though as a servant her enjoyments would have been circumscribed . |
| 9 | ‘ Eighty years ago her subjects would have been knights in armour , ladies in wimples and distress … now , in 1939 , they were bodiless heads , green horses and violet grass , seaweed , shells and fungi ’ , all executed in the style of Dali . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Had they known it , their lives would have been completely-different . |
| 12 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 13 | Her parents would have been children when he wandered past their door . |
| 14 | Previously those living with their parents would have been expected to continue living there . |
| 15 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 16 | Their weapons would have been deposited in the locker the previous night by a UNACO operative . |
| 17 | Their contents would have been eaten under strict supervision ! |
| 18 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 19 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 20 | Their priorities would have been quite different — more mundane , more limited in scope , more pragmatic . |
| 21 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 22 | Anybody who had hoped to get past these two ladies without paying her dues would have been squelched by a look ; and the pile of dollars in front of the treasurer grew as the number of white name cards in front of Mrs MacPhail diminished . |
| 23 | Many had hoped that with so many Irishmen from both northern and southern Ireland fighting together against Germany , that their differences would have been overcome . |
| 24 | In the past , her pupils would have been shown the way to work this out , given the formula to memorise , and in many cases they would have forgotten it . |
| 25 | Maybe H R T was helping what her symptoms would have been if she had n't taken them , maybe they were worse because she was , maybe they were the same in spite of it , but I du n no . |
| 26 | If the action project were succeeding in sustaining at home people who without its services would have been in an institution at an earlier date , then we would expect the action sample clients still at home at six months and 12 months to be more disadvantaged in the possession of factors likely to affect home care potential . |
| 27 | They were also at times short of water , although they no doubt learnt to manage on very little , and their encampments would have been spread out to take advantage of several watercourses at each halt in the journey . |
| 28 | If any private company had behaved like that , its bosses would have been savaged and ridiculed . |
| 29 | All coroners hold inquests on people who died aboard , if their deaths would have been inquestable in this country . |
| 30 | The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " . |