Example sentences of "would have been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 2 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 3 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 4 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
| 5 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 6 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |