Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
| 2 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 3 | Now if you 'd have drawn it there 'd have been some doubt . |
| 4 | We thought there 'd have been some response |
| 5 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ If you had n't bumped that sodding Angel there 'd have been another murder this afternoon , ’ said Perdita sulkily . |
| 7 | They 'd have been worried sick about her , and what could they do so many miles away ? |
| 8 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 9 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 10 | She didn there would 've been enough change in that and Kath was gon na go straight to the bank and get her some money back , right ? |
| 11 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 12 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 13 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 14 | Replacing either of them — and they ran the series as a sort of family business the Marks and Spencer of movie comedy — would have been professional suicide . |
| 15 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 16 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 17 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |
| 18 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 19 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 20 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Normally there would have been two solicitors covering police stations at Stockton , Middlesbrough , Thornaby , South Bank , Redcar and Guisborough . |
| 23 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 24 | There would have been other players between the two extremes of those who required a check and those who did not . |
| 25 | It 's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague , but there would have been practical problems anyway . |
| 26 | Mother General and Mother Clare were indeed right , it would have been preferential treatment to have financed Eve 's university education from the convent funds . |
| 27 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 28 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 29 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 30 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |