Example sentences of "[adv] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band .
2 So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ?
3 With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now .
4 That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path .
5 British support alone would have been at least a mixed blessing .
6 The trend is towards empowerment and allowing junior employees to take personal initiatives that normally would have been beyond the scope of their jobs .
7 Worse still would have been for the republic to wriggle out of its predicament , most likely by appointing de Gaulle as an emergency premier so as to appease the army .
8 It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good .
9 You know probably if you got a younger person , he probably would have been after him , square up to him , and erm .
10 If the non est factum case had succeeded , paragraph ( g ) also would have been in point , both against the daughter and against the chargees .
11 But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside .
12 The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble .
13 It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means .
14 erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it .
15 ‘ Anyone else would have been on their head .
16 Who else would have been in Mayall 's band at that time ?
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