Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decade earlier their husbands would have been in sweaters or soft collars . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But this view is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of the remains of this period in East Anglia , bearing in mind , too , that with the shortage of good building stone most of the buildings would have been in timber , the excavation and interpretation of which has only recently become a normal archaeological technique . |
| 7 | If this is not done , a return to pre-civilisation conditions could be mankind-s fate , and all the sufferings of thousands of years would have been in vain . |
| 8 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 9 | The group met by the patriarchs would have been amongst earlier settlements of Aegean traders . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 12 | These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery . |
| 13 | Where all these views would concur is in saying that on the track Niki was as much the natural successor to Jackie Stewart as Alain Prost is the natural successor to Lauda . |
| 14 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 15 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |
| 16 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |
| 17 | And he goes on : ‘ No one is expecting to make big money — all players would ask is to be treated reasonably in line with what they achieve . ’ |
| 18 | Without papal assistance , crown finances would have been in even more desperate straits than in fact they were . |
| 19 | Zoo staff said rare animals could have been killed in the attack and warned that the gang members would have been in danger if any of the animals had managed to escape . |
| 20 | and the basis , basics would have been by the end of next week but certain , assuming that they are not interrupted and sort of dragged onto something more lucrative the bad news will have been quantified by then . |
| 21 | To commemorate South Africa 's readmission to Test cricket , Coopers and Lybrand Ratings have published a list of what their world rankings would have been in March 1970 when South Africa played their last Test match . |
| 22 | The police would have been through every drawer with a toothcomb in their search for clues ; there was nothing to be gained there . |
| 23 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed . |
| 26 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |