Example sentences of "of [noun prp] would [verb] [been] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Duke and Duchess of Windsor would have been marvellous and I suspect they might have done it , too . |
| 2 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 3 | If the obstructions and restrictions to flow had been removed and if the York stream had been flowing , I doubt whether any part of Maidenhead would have been flooded in 1990 . |
| 4 | The axe was originally a northern European weapon , and a typical design during the time of Barbarossa would have been a simple axe blade balanced by a spike on its reverse . |
| 5 | The dismissal of Haig would have been much more serious , but with Law 's advice Lloyd George did not take the risk . |
| 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 | This reference of Elijah would have been fully understood by Jewish readers and would also account for the crowd response at the end of the story : |
| 8 | Most Labour voters would have known what to do , and the example of Bath would have been multiplied , so denying Major victory . |
| 9 | It is , for instance , improbable that , on a joint assessment of £133. 6s. 8d. , any of the three Thomases of Lavale would have been mere labourers . |
| 10 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 13 | Admittedly at this distance the idea appears fanciful and even ludicrous ; and no doubt if an enemy landing or landings had taken place , the roads out of London would have been jammed . |
| 14 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 15 | He never explained his reasons ; but obedience to his consecration oath of fidelity to the church of Canterbury would have been one reason , and the desire for absolute stability in gifts to the saints another . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | And a remaining obstacle to firm dealing with the Prince of Wales would have been Baldwin 's deep-rooted distaste for grasping nettles which were not pushed into his hands . |