Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do .
2 By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy .
3 Therefore , if we had taken our cue from these public styles , we would have produced a top-heavy account that would have been of only marginal importance to the social ‘ life ’ of the speech community .
4 And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much .
5 Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours .
6 That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’
7 But we were surprised that not once during our visit were the words ‘ land reform ’ so much as mentioned , although what has happened there most certainly counts as this , and would have been of interest to the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development held by FAO in 1979 .
8 But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah .
9 Though Lancashire are far below full strength , Grayson has earned his place on merit having captained the powerful North Under-21s to the ADT divisional age-group title and would have been in the side even had the Orrell contingent been available , Martin Strett being ineligible having represented the Northern Division in October .
10 ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position .
11 Top seed Seles , who has three Grand Slam titles among her nine tournament victories this year , finished off the 14th-ranked Tauziat in 50 minutes , and would have been in the locker room even sooner but for a lapse in concentration during the second set .
12 If this be correct , then one would say that a refusal by the House of Lords to exercise any mandatory Gallagher jurisdiction to dispose of B 's undetermined arguments would have denied him his right to a judgment and would have been in violation of the terms of Article 6 .
13 However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats .
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