Example sentences of "that would have be " in BNC.

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1 If I could 've worn a red jersey that would 've been it .
2 I can only wonder at the fish that would have been caught when the river had fully fined down .
3 Mill-designing architects and mill builders avoided any superfluous decoration , dispensing with the external rendering and cornices between the storeys that would have been demanded by classical precedent .
4 The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth .
5 Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago .
6 The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable .
7 Oz formed his face into a solemn mask that would have been funny if Jinny had not been trying to keep him happy .
8 Small objects ( fig. 7.3 ) that would have been totally destroyed if dated by conventional 14 C can now be sampled for AMS , 5 ; and the benefits in dating art objects are obvious .
9 Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates .
10 So moving £10,000 from a deposit account to diminish a debt will save this person £1,092 per annum at an opportunity cost — the interest that would have been earned on deposit — of £710 for a basic rate taxpayer or £473 for high earners .
11 Among the errors that would have been eliminated by a more careful reading is the statement that Frances Power Cobbe was the only Unionist among these four women ; Millicent Fawcett was at least as opposed as Cobbe to Irish Home Rule ; and only Josephine Butler actively supported it .
12 But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta .
13 This requires bravery — to go against the ‘ safety first ’ approach — but , paradoxically , it is possible under LMS , and working with the governing body , to structure schools and their management in ways very different from anything that would have been possible before .
14 And they wore silk socks that would have been frowned upon at the more establishment country clubs in the Hamptons .
15 Two crews that would have been especially grateful for this kind of compensation were Dennis Arlett and Patricial Lagesse whose accumulated woes would not let them pass Gao while , even more heart-rending was the final submission of the chassis previously held together by Jean-Christophe Savzey and Claire de Valbray — an agonizing 50km from the finish .
16 His film , Kwietniowski straightforwardly claims , is one that would have been approved of by Noel Coward 's unconscious .
17 His house in Dartmouth was demolished when a new road was made in 1864 , and the fact that the road is named Newcomen Road is no compensation for the loss of a house that would have been holy ground for today 's industrial enthusiasts .
18 But perhaps Nicholson 's most spectacular achievement was the important part he played in surpassing the performance of the rival Perkin & Sons — a feat that would have been impossible without the cooperation of his friend , and mentor , Hofmann .
19 The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are .
20 Similarly , the need to generate foreign currency has stimulated tourism in regions that would have been virtually inaccessible 15 years ago .
21 I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR .
22 For example , while LMS gives the governing body the power to cut their school 's staffing establishment , they also have the power to exceed the level that would have been fixed by the LEA .
23 He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series .
24 I indicated a possible line of enquiry that would have been much more fruitful had he pursued it more vigorously and had begun to examine the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process .
25 The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals .
26 ’ How unwelcome an epitaph that would have been .
27 This enabled it to gulp down large chunks of meat that would have been too large to swallow .
28 His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day .
29 He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength .
30 And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry .
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