Example sentences of "would have been [det] [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 you had n't bumped that sodding Angel there 'd have been another murder this afternoon , ’ said Perdita sulkily .
6 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 ?
7 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 .
8 Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood .
9 Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’
10 Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family .
11 Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland .
12 He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself .
13 To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church .
14 If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years .
15 If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes .
16 On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much .
17 ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare .
18 Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there .
19 ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by .
20 Until recently there would have been little dispute with the Keynesian view that the maintenance of demand in the economy was one of the central responsibilities of governments .
21 There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled .
22 But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet .
23 ‘ There would have been some degree of overlap .
24 Obviously there would have been some overlap , but this is essentially the time scale of the construction .
25 WE shall probably never know the appointments Neil Kinnock had in store for his first week as Prime Minister , but there would have been some surprises .
26 Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same .
27 At least there would have been some measure of impersonality about a restaurant , whereas here , trapped in the confines of her small office with Luke so close , there was a definite air of intimacy .
28 There would have been some loss of blood . ’
29 The point is , there would have been some validity to her claim that she was making a point through music … if she had made one .
30 Provisions to undertake these remits have been substantial but we estimate that without them our costs in 1992–93 would have been some £25 million higher .
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