Example sentences of "would have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 2 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 3 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 4 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 5 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 6 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 7 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 8 | We would have been spared this ! ’ |
| 9 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 10 | I do n't believe that with any union this company would have been cracked any quicker . |