Example sentences of "would [verb] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 2 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 3 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
| 4 | Well , with the two lines going yeah would have been about right then but see , John I do n't suppose he realised Ann was gon na fetch all the people out of here there and everywhere and start that up . |
| 5 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 6 | The contract would have been worth five million pounds . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 9 | otherwise I would have been on two fifty . |
| 10 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |
| 11 | He never had a chance of getting the money , which would have been between 10 and 12 times the amount in circulation in the UK at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 13 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
| 14 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 15 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 16 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 17 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 18 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 19 | With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association . |
| 20 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 22 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 23 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 26 | ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses . |
| 27 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 28 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 29 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 30 | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and , mathematically , infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation , cruelty , oppression , barbarism , murder and vicious wrongdoing , he would have been at first amazed , then outraged and finally contemptuous , disbelieving the information . |