Example sentences of "they would [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 2 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 3 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 4 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 5 | If the children had been with us they 'd have been in the disco , fortunately soundproofed , every night . |
| 6 | They picked up so much more corn that — if I were to leave them — they 'd have been in trouble in no time . |
| 7 | or they 'd have been in a different position |
| 8 | I would have thought they 'd have been in touch about extending the guarantee through you . |
| 9 | If nationalized industries previously had bad performances , they would have been worth little had they been sold at that stage . |
| 10 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 11 | ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses . |
| 12 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 13 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 14 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 15 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 16 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 17 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 19 | In a very realistic scenario , nine Mitchells were lined-up on the main runway , much how they would have been on the aircraft carrier UDD Hornet ready for their fateful flight to Tokyo . |
| 20 | If the plaintiffs had refused to pay the illegal fees for a permit to run their vehicles they would have been at risk of having their vehicles seized and their business disrupted . |
| 21 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 22 | Within the village , them that was been working ion the fishing time , they would have been at what they then on the firms maybe |
| 23 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 24 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 25 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 26 | Sitwell provides an extended description of the gardens as they would have been in Susanna Jennens 's lifetime , a summary of the more interesting volumes in the library , and a general inventory of the house from Dutch paintings to kitchen pewter . |
| 27 | These galleries face North , and , as Ms E. Little explains in her book , Chronicles of Patterdale , they would have been in a good position beside the early road to attract the attention of the wool clothiers and their servants , the broggers , passing by on horseback in search of stock . |
| 28 | In contrast to this static , theatrical production , during the last weekend of the 1988 York Festival the last four mystery plays were re-enacted as they would have been in the fifteenth century . |
| 29 | In the May heatwave my feet were considerably cooler and less sweaty than they would have been in leather boots . |
| 30 | We all knew why : left with Mum they would have been in pawn before we had the chance to wear them . |