Example sentences of "[adv] there would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously there would have been some overlap , but this is essentially the time scale of the construction . |
| 2 | There is very little known abut the carvers of medieval bench ends but it is thought that most of them were ordinary local craftsmen , and so there would have been no reason to record this fact . |
| 3 | Just to quickly assess that we were n't going forward to erm a horrible situation where er one of us or somebody else is going to be injured , so there would have been a very , very quick check to see who or what was in the room . |
| 4 | But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had . |
| 5 | Lili and Robert were out , and anyway there would have been no escape . |
| 6 | ‘ It could n't possibly have been Eddie who impersonated Delia and anyway there 'd have been no point when she lives in the same house as Angy . ’ |
| 7 | Normally there would have been two solicitors covering police stations at Stockton , Middlesbrough , Thornaby , South Bank , Redcar and Guisborough . |
| 8 | Additionally there would have been a Wardrobe Mistress to arrange costuming , and a Make-up Lady to ensure no-one 's nose gleamed under the studio lights . |
| 9 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 10 | If we 'd have stayed here there would have been no trouble . |
| 11 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 12 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 13 | Not a word of this before , not a hint ; surely there 'd have been a hint , a nod , a wink ? |
| 14 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 15 | By then there would have been a major waste of resources . |
| 16 | Adam only wished Uncle Hilbert had left him Wyvis Hall and then there would have been no Ecalpemos , no Zosie , and no deaths . |
| 17 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 18 | If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways . |
| 19 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 20 | Then there would have been the problem of the body . |
| 21 | At least then there would have been the chatter of her neighbours to distract her thoughts . |
| 22 | They 'd just have complained to Mrs Goreng about me , and then there would have been hell to pay . |
| 23 | ‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper . |
| 24 | If they 've had three bits of beef then there would have been . |
| 25 | At least there would have been some measure of impersonality about a restaurant , whereas here , trapped in the confines of her small office with Luke so close , there was a definite air of intimacy . |
| 26 | ‘ At least there 'd have been no doubt about our ability to pay . |
| 27 | Had the King simply accepted MacDonald 's resignation , either there would have been no National Government , or , if there had been , it would not have been led by MacDonald . |
| 28 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 29 | Two had died in infancy , otherwise there would have been nine little mouths to feed . |
| 30 | To carry out a proper exploration of these veins in some depth it was necessary to have a drainage adit otherwise there would have been continual hindrance with water . |