Example sentences of "would [verb] been [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going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 . |
| 6 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |