Example sentences of "there would [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There would 've been a riot . ’ |
| 2 | But there would 've been nobody would have stolen bodies here though . |
| 3 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 4 | Had that principle ruled post-war planning , there would have been no new towns . |
| 5 | Equally , had county councils shown greater vision , more smaller settlements would have been built , and there would have been less urban sprawl , less despoliation of county towns , and fewer hideous spec-building estates on the fringes of attractive old villages . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 7 | Had the King simply accepted MacDonald 's resignation , either there would have been no National Government , or , if there had been , it would not have been led by MacDonald . |
| 8 | There would have been no sound down there but the sibilant trickle of water . |
| 9 | There would have been no trouble about marketing , as the Bajaur heroin processors obligingly collect the opium from the farm . |
| 10 | There would have been different levels of accreditation according to competence , but each level ( Crown , High Court , Appeal Court ) would have been open to both solicitors and barristers . |
| 11 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 12 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 13 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 14 | ( In France there would have been more of a flourish : ‘ Monsieur le Facteur ’ . ) |
| 15 | I regret that because there would have been the children after he 'd gone . ’ |
| 16 | Now , if she had gone to lunch with Dorothea Shottery after all , there would have been three people to talk to . |
| 17 | There would have been riots if we had let thousands of kids come along like that , ’ said Waterman . |
| 18 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 19 | If we 'd had a child there would have been movement ; we 'd have watched him growing up , seen him change , worried about his schooling , and so on . |
| 20 | It seems reasonable to say that without Law there would have been no NFCC , at least not in the powerful form it reached in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 21 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 22 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 23 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 26 | Obviously there would have been some overlap , but this is essentially the time scale of the construction . |
| 27 | Note , too , that because there was no free oxygen gas , there would have been no ozone layer — because ozone is a form of oxygen . |
| 28 | Had they chosen a weekday for the coup , there would have been heavy traffic at this hour and news of the roadblocks would have spread quickly throughout the country , perhaps warning one of the ministers before he could be captured … one more example of exemplary planning . |
| 29 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 30 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |