Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The square piano , mentioned above , signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ was probably made by Johann Gottfried , so Stein would have been in Strasbourg when this instrument with the German action but no escapement was finished . |
2 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
3 | In this case , Aldfrith would have been in his early fifties when he became king , yet his marriage to Cuthburh , sister of Ine , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a 718 ) ( unlikely to have occurred earlier ) , and his subsequent fathering of Osred , born c . |
4 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
5 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
6 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
7 | If the line-out were a simple matter of one man outjumping another , then England would have been in the driving seat . |
8 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
9 | Indeed : if even boys were really to be left on an island I do not think that Simon would have been amongst them ; he is very much a symbol rather than a character , and represents the force of good in Golding 's book . |
10 | ‘ I felt sure Mr Bryant would have been in touch when he heard about Jonathan . ’ |
11 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
12 | At the battle of El Alamein , the South Africans played a vital role , but had he been there , I do n't suppose Coun Williams would have been on speaking terms . |
13 | Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards . |
14 | Thus , at the time of the last Tory leadership election , a victory for Michael Heseltine would have been by far the most professionally exciting result . |
15 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
16 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
17 | She went upstairs to change , thinking how proud Arnold would have been of the way she had coped with the water shortage . |
18 | Pascoe would have been at the restaurant , waiting . |
19 | Daeve Pope would have been in heavy metal heaven . |
20 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
21 | FUNNY TO reflect that , if the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame was n't a self-stroking shithole concept graveyard for Rolling Stone readers to drape their senile drool over , Vince Clarke would have been in it years ago . |
22 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
23 | For the kings of the East Saxons to have acknowledged a dependency on the king of Kent would have been in the oldest known tradition of Kentish-East Saxon relationships , and the same is true of Surrey . |
24 | If rage had been a fuel , Nora would have been in Waterford within the hour . |
25 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |
26 | ‘ I had expected Mr Beckenham would have been in contact with you at least , ma'am , ’ he said with a frown . |
27 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |