Example sentences of "would have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
| 2 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 3 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 4 | In a better place and time , we 'd have been friends . |
| 5 | If she 'd fought the rape there 'd have been skin from her attacker under the fingernails . |
| 6 | Under Labour 's tax regime , he 'd have been £1.5 million worse off . |
| 7 | Remembering the Welsh love of nicknames , I said , ‘ Then you 'd have been Neil the Squeal . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , and if it was the shot that killed Sabine Jourdain there 'd have been blood in the lounge . |
| 9 | ‘ In that case there 'd have been blood on the ground , ’ Melissa pointed out . |
| 10 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 11 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 12 | It would 've been cosine . |
| 13 | A good example would have been Saltosuchus , the so-called ‘ leaping crocodile ’ . |
| 14 | The proceedings were enlivened by an intervention from the producers of King Mob Echo , which would have been Britain 's Situationist paper had not the local branch — if branch is the right word — been excluded by its international secretariat from membership . |
| 15 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 16 | no I do n't know , but I , I , I imagine the er first reprint would have been September nineteen eighty six |
| 17 | Clearly , there would have been conflict and confusion over what had and had not been devolved . |
| 18 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 19 | But a few years ago , there 's no way Ray and his leggy friends would have been flatmates . |
| 20 | The council tax bill would have been £706 , making the bill £1,120 less under the council tax . |
| 21 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 22 | Probably , at the present day , such service on such request would have raised a promise by implication to pay what it was worth , and the subsequent promise of a sum certain would have been evidence for the jury to fix the amount . ’ |
| 23 | The second person into the flat and immediately very , very close behind to P C was myself and the third person into the flat would have been P C . |
| 24 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 25 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 26 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
| 27 | Her destiny would have been marriage to her brother , then aged 9 . |
| 28 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 29 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 30 | The most useful form of illustration would have been sets of drawings on papyri or thin wood tablets , loosely bound together . |