Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 2 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 3 | Similarly for example 3 , syntax would choose are over arc , and for example 2 , semantics would choose dog rather than clog . |
| 4 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 5 | Normally , the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light . |
| 6 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 7 | There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial . |
| 8 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 9 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |
| 10 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 11 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 12 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 13 | But we were surprised that not once during our visit were the words ‘ land reform ’ so much as mentioned , although what has happened there most certainly counts as this , and would have been of interest to the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development held by FAO in 1979 . |
| 14 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 15 | First , LAWER is viewed as the caring response of doctor and relatives for the patient , whose wishes , they feel ‘ confident ’ , would have been for life to have been ended . |
| 16 | Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity . |
| 17 | In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering . |
| 18 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 19 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 20 | In order to make this analysis meaningful we have used the findings reported in Chapter Four in order to make a prediction about whether or not clients would have been at home had they not been supported by the Home Support Project . |
| 21 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 22 | It would have been at home in Bournemouth or Scarborough or any one of a dozen British seaside resorts , Christina thought . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So that 's when the D two would have been after lunch , yeah . |
| 25 | Unigate 's chief executive , Ross Buckland , said yesterday : ‘ By buying the company before flotation , we reckon we have got a very fair deal , compared with what it would have been after flotation . ’ |
| 26 | This would have been in keeping with the likely pattern of Bernician-Dalriadic relations . |
| 27 | Table 16.8 shows that the household is marginally better off out of work than it would have been in work . |
| 28 | ‘ I had expected Mr Beckenham would have been in contact with you at least , ma'am , ’ he said with a frown . |
| 29 | ‘ I would have thought they would have been in contact by now , ’ said secretary David Bowen . |
| 30 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |