Example sentences of "[det] would have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bath are virtually unbeatable … that 's the first point to make and even for Gloucester on top form this would have been mission impossible … the cherry and whites self destructed though … they missed five kicks and presented the champions with at least two tries … in all Bath got six … |
| 2 | These would have been collaterals in whom Ivy might have delighted . |
| 3 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 4 | If the gas density in the PFM was appreciable then the terrestrial planets could have acquired substantial atmospheres , and these would have been representative of the PFM , with H 2 and He dominant . |
| 5 | Those would have been Hester 's instructions , Ruth thought . |
| 6 | I would have thought that if we were to put forward the two hundred and fifty pound to cover the , their extra lighting bill , that would have been money well spent . |
| 7 | That would have been glory enough for me . |
| 8 | And that would have been time enough if you had n't shot your mouth off and brought that foul man roaring round here … ’ |
| 9 | The fifth day could only have been absorbing if Miandad had set England a target , and on this tablet of clay or loam or whatever it was , that would have been madness . |
| 10 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | That would have been number three . ’ |
| 12 | The real reason that I jumped the pond last week was not to escape the E-word , though that would have been cause enough . |
| 13 | That would have been Jimmy . |
| 14 | That would have been £66,150 , an increase of about £4,500 , dated from 1 April . |
| 15 | She would like to have said , ‘ Yes , I jolly well do , ’ but that would have been suicide . |
| 16 | That would have been Salisbury plain , |