Example sentences of "in [noun prp] would [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords pointed out in Jobling , that the plaintiff in Baker would have been entitled to compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and there was therefore a danger of over-compensation . |
| 2 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Many of the problems concerning the children in Orkney would have been solved in the old days by the pressure of the community . |
| 4 | Saxon Christianity in Kiev would have been tantamount to an attack , at least culturally , on the Byzantine flank . |
| 5 | The Government 's figures — let us for the moment assume that they have an accuracy which the Government 's abysmal record on predicting poll tax bills certainly does not justify — show that average council tax bills this year in Langbaurgh would have been £470 and in Middlesbrough £447 — £170 and £153 respectively higher than the equivalent fair rates bills . |
| 6 | The delay in Britain would have been greater had long-wait specialities such as skin disease not been excluded to allow inter-country comparisons , Dr Douglas Fleming , head of the college 's Birmingham unit , said last night . |
| 7 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 8 | We felt almost guilty that our unremarkable house in Edinburgh would have been one of the dozen oldest buildings in Austin . |
| 9 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |