Example sentences of "and [noun pl] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge growth of its towns and cities would have been impossible without the medical advances of these years and the action by governments , singly and in concert , which supplied new health and welfare services , and imposed new standards of health , sanitation and accommodation . |
| 2 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 3 | The effect of the drag reduction kit modifications on the aircraft 's pre- and post-stall behaviour could not be documented precisely but it is unlikely that their effect on the stall speed and characteristics would have been significant . |
| 4 | One can calculate that in the hot big bang model about a quarter of the protons and neutrons would have been converted into helium nuclei , along with a small amount of heavy hydrogen and other elements . |
| 5 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 6 | Turnover grew by a quarter and margins would have been maintained but for strikes and other special factors mainly affecting the aerospace business . |
| 7 | Erm most of the other items o on the works and bridges would have been the responsibility of the project manager to er them . |
| 8 | A glossary of technical terms and abbreviations would have been useful , as would also a general bibliography . |
| 9 | The plan , whatever it was , must have been discussed well in advance of the tour 's arrival in Oxford , but a few last-minute recapitulations and reassurances would have been almost inevitable . |
| 10 | But they would roll back the great doors that divided the hall from the morning room , and carpets would have been lifted and floors polished , earlier in the day . |
| 11 | If only Esther had shown her daughter the love she craved , Beth would have returned that love , and things would have been so very different . |
| 12 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 13 | Thus if the 1976 Bill had gone through as introduced , railway and airline employees would have been treated as receiving benefits in kind from concessionary travel equal to the open market cost of tickets and schoolmasters would have been taxed for concessionary education on the amount of the normal school fees . |
| 14 | The love-affairs of kings and queens would have been far more interesting . ’ |
| 15 | Apart from Benjamin and I , he was the only one who had left the manor so his cloak and boots would have been covered in snow . |
| 16 | If we look to existing trends for advice , it seems likely that the coffin stools , hearse and candles would have been kept at the church and put into place by the parish clerk and/or sexton . |