Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 3 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 4 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 5 | A decade earlier their husbands would have been in sweaters or soft collars . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 11 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 16 | In the football world this manifestly unsuccessful administration would have been on its bike years ago . |
| 17 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 18 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 19 | When the democratic French governments of the inter-war period ignored Le Corbusier 's scheme for demolishing most of Paris in favour of his own grandiose plan of urban renewal , the architect turned his thoughts to how much better his fate would have been under an absolute monarch like Louis XIV : ‘ Homage to a great town planner . |
| 20 | At yesterday 's prices that stake would have been worth £7,900 . |
| 21 | Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices . |
| 22 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 23 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 24 | If the line-out were a simple matter of one man outjumping another , then England would have been in the driving seat . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery . |
| 27 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
| 28 | If instead we had measured A's spin in the x direction and found it to be " up " then , of course , by a similar argument B would have been in a state with unc definitely " down " . |
| 29 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 30 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |