Example sentences of "[det] would [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This would have been in keeping with the likely pattern of Bernician-Dalriadic relations .
2 This would have been after a rehearsal of the local schools orchestra , some time early in that last year of his life .
3 ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’
4 6d. and many would have been under the average .
5 That would 've been down hill .
6 And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church .
7 Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police .
8 It might well be that upon their selection the Roman Catholics were appraised of the atmosphere in England and advised not to be too obvious in their worship , galling though that would have been to those proud and independent men .
9 We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago .
10 I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality .
11 That would have been in March 1952 .
12 On the majority view the defendant was actually left free to work for a subsidiary of GUS which was not involved in the mail order business in the United Kingdom even though that would have been in clear breach of the restriction .
13 I was given to believe that would have been in the flat also we thought that st was going to be in there possibly a wife and it was n't said whether there were any children .
14 Well that would have been in erm oh tut
15 That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room .
16 Few voters could have obtained a real grasp of the issues at stake and hardly any would have been in a position to assess the leadership qualities of the candidates on offer .
17 In normal times , Selborne and Steel-Maitland would have been tolerated and both would have been at least partially silenced by the restraint of office .
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