Example sentences of "would have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 2 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 3 | The second person into the flat and immediately very , very close behind to P C was myself and the third person into the flat would have been P C . |
| 4 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 5 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 6 | Bay did thrash Connah 's Quay 7-0 in last season 's Welsh Cup , and also hammered Briton Ferry , and Bryn Jones agrees his side would have been title contenders . |
| 7 | One square 's separation would have been dagger range . |
| 8 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 9 | Injuries rule out scrum-half Douglas ( Newcastle Gosforth ) and Lumsden , who would have been Oxford University 's full-back last December . |
| 10 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 11 | It was June the fifteenth , and would have been Evan Roberts ' 85th birthday , but he died a month before . |
| 12 | I 've always thought that if he was n't a composer he would have been Rupert Murdoch ; he 's just one of those people who would be successful in whatever he went into . |
| 13 | English , it would have been John Smith . |
| 14 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 15 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 16 | That would have been Salisbury plain , |
| 17 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |
| 18 | He 's won umpteen Grands Prix and if Dalgety could have managed a tighter mechanical edge last season the general consensus is that he would have been world champion . |
| 19 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 20 | There would have been Sir William before that . |
| 21 | On the corner of the Square in his day would have been St Michael 's Church . |
| 22 | A few minutes earlier , however , and those flames would have been funeral pyres — such was the significance of this game to the club , who have seen their promising start to the season subside . |
| 23 | Craft-level courses are equivalent to what would have been apprenticeship level . |
| 24 | The final stage in the experimental procedure would have been vacuum distillation of the amine , at which point having bis(azide) present would have certainly led to an explosion , even if it had not occurred earlier . |