Example sentences of "would [verb] been [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes .
9 On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much .
10 ( 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ There would have been some degree of overlap .
16 Obviously there would have been some overlap , but this is essentially the time scale of the construction .
17 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 .
18 There would have been some loss of blood . ’
19 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 .
20 If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways .
21 There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work .
22 Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it .
23 " Hindsight is always easy , but I do n't think it would have worked , There would have been more bloodshed , more killing , but of the people in the streets , not of the people responsible , My husband did n't want bloodshed . "
24 It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself .
25 For my experience would have been this way no matter how other experiences might or might not have been .
26 Their needs alone would have been enough reason — were enough — for a number of us over the next three to four years to stay in a male organization , with largely male resources for mainly male callers and to join with some of those men to change it .
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