Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 7 | In the football world this manifestly unsuccessful administration would have been on its bike years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At yesterday 's prices that stake would have been worth £7,900 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery . |
| 15 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The upper team would have been on the logging track above the natural amphitheatre when he broke for cover . |
| 18 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 19 | If the election had been declared to be void ( as Panama and Liberia asserted ) , the Committee 's actions in the intervening period would have been of no legal effect . |
| 20 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 21 | The approach of the Court was that taking into account the three aggravating circumstances , the responsibility of the offender , the age of the girl and the degree of planning , the proper starting point would have been in the region of eight years : against that were the plea of guilty , the offender 's remorse and the effect on the offender of the double appearance . |
| 22 | His shop would have been in a back street , probably in a run-down part of the town , amongst the dwellings of those whom he catered for ; indeed , Sowerberry himself was only just above the bread-line . |
| 23 | Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity . |
| 24 | Without Coton the score would have been at least 7–1 . |
| 25 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 26 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 27 | The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane . |
| 28 | Labour argues that it will not be significantly affected because most of those who evade the register would have been among the large proportion — between 20.1 per cent and 31.2 per cent in their top 10 target constituencies — who did not vote in 1987 . |
| 29 | For her , the only supreme sacrifice would have been in giving up her husband . |
| 30 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |