Example sentences of "would [verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there !
2 In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’
3 ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’
4 With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up .
5 Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes .
6 Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day .
7 At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps .
8 If the original figures totalled 120,000 men of military age , together with 100 professional soldiers , the entire population would have been nearly half a million , which again tallies well with other indications in the text .
9 To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green .
10 She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer .
11 Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams .
12 If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped .
13 But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere .
14 We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults .
15 Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members .
16 Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play .
17 Appearing in Ackerley 's books pages might , you feel , have been a privilege but an afternoon of Joe and Joe 's dog would have been too much .
18 Going into another troupe after being a Tiller would have been too much of a comedown .
19 However little , it would have been too much .
20 It would have been too much for poor Bridget , looking after them , when she had so much to do .
21 It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial .
22 It is hard to believe they would have been too much for the North Atlantic alliance .
23 The ordeal of suffering his ogling eyes on her at mealtimes would have been too much , even for someone with Beth 's strong constitution .
24 It would have been too much , having to look after Rebecca .
25 A week ago six hours would have been too much .
26 Would have been too much .
27 It would have been too much to hope for one capable of answering any of the questions that were beginning to raise their heads in her sleep-muffled brain .
28 The contrast between Dysart 's carefree existence and his own would have been too much to bear .
29 But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time .
30 Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’
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