Example sentences of "would [not/n't] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 2 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 3 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 4 | Whatever else she may have confided , it would not have been that . |
| 5 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 6 | ‘ He would not have been such a fool as to do it in front of witnesses . ’ |
| 7 | Had the police department , under former Chief Darryl Gates , carried out its duties properly last April there would not have been such a spread of violence , he said . |
| 8 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 9 | ‘ There would not have been many to mourn him . ’ |
| 10 | Their financial situation would not have been enough to drive them away . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 12 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 13 | If she had been rational enough to tell him something it certainly would n't have been that . |
| 14 | As some people have pointed out , in the mid-eighties that time would n't have been much to write home about . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It would n't have been much use if she had . |
| 17 | Well , I do n't know , probably would n't have been much good anyway — ’ |
| 18 | I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride . |
| 19 | There would n't have been many on the island then was there ? |
| 20 | There would n't have been many at that time in the morning . |
| 21 | If he had been able to speak to Jo each morning before he left for the Embassy , he probably would n't have been such a pain in the outer office . |
| 22 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 23 | There would n't have been any planets or stars then . |
| 24 | There would n't have been any point anyway . |
| 25 | We shafted Connelly when we took his shipment of coke but a gang war would n't have been any use to either of us . |
| 26 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 27 | If I could have answered all the questions it would n't have been any fun at all . |
| 28 | ‘ There would n't have been any point would there ? |
| 29 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |
| 30 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |