Example sentences of "[adj] would have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bath are virtually unbeatable … that 's the first point to make and even for Gloucester on top form this would have been mission impossible … the cherry and whites self destructed though … they missed five kicks and presented the champions with at least two tries … in all Bath got six … |
| 2 | Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis . |
| 3 | These would have been collaterals in whom Ivy might have delighted . |
| 4 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 5 | If the gas density in the PFM was appreciable then the terrestrial planets could have acquired substantial atmospheres , and these would have been representative of the PFM , with H 2 and He dominant . |
| 6 | Had the changes brought about by the 1980 Social Security Act not taken place , the maximum payment in 1981 would have been £19.25 . |
| 7 | Those would have been Hester 's instructions , Ruth thought . |
| 8 | 6 would have been disaster . |
| 9 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |
| 10 | I would have thought that if we were to put forward the two hundred and fifty pound to cover the , their extra lighting bill , that would have been money well spent . |
| 11 | That would have been glory enough for me . |
| 12 | And that would have been time enough if you had n't shot your mouth off and brought that foul man roaring round here … ’ |
| 13 | The fifth day could only have been absorbing if Miandad had set England a target , and on this tablet of clay or loam or whatever it was , that would have been madness . |
| 14 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 15 | That would have been number three . ’ |
| 16 | The real reason that I jumped the pond last week was not to escape the E-word , though that would have been cause enough . |
| 17 | That would have been Jimmy . |
| 18 | That would have been £66,150 , an increase of about £4,500 , dated from 1 April . |
| 19 | She would like to have said , ‘ Yes , I jolly well do , ’ but that would have been suicide . |
| 20 | That would have been Salisbury plain , |
| 21 | Probably , at the present day , such service on such request would have raised a promise by implication to pay what it was worth , and the subsequent promise of a sum certain would have been evidence for the jury to fix the amount . ’ |
| 22 | The London stockbrokers County Natwest Wood Mackenzie reported on Dec. 21 their calculation that the only major stock market in which a sterling investor would have realized an average gain during 1990 would have been Mexico , where booming market conditions would have produced a 53.2 per cent profit ; the UK , by comparison , would have produced a 7.7 per cent average loss , the West German market would have brought a 21.4 per cent loss , and the USA a 17.1 per cent loss . |