Example sentences of "would have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It would 've been cosine . |
| 3 | A good example would have been Saltosuchus , the so-called ‘ leaping crocodile ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | no I do n't know , but I , I , I imagine the er first reprint would have been September nineteen eighty six |
| 7 | Clearly , there would have been conflict and confusion over what had and had not been devolved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But a few years ago , there 's no way Ray and his leggy friends would have been flatmates . |
| 10 | The council tax bill would have been £706 , making the bill £1,120 less under the council tax . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her destiny would have been marriage to her brother , then aged 9 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The most useful form of illustration would have been sets of drawings on papyri or thin wood tablets , loosely bound together . |
| 21 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 22 | If it had been ‘ five ’ then it would have been rhd . |
| 23 | There would have been maids than . |
| 24 | And since for him the market implied commodity production , and value as a mediating form in social economic relations , the idea of ‘ market socialism ’ would have been anathema . |
| 25 | It would have been stop ! |
| 26 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 27 | If I had wanted to study anything academic , it would have been archaeology , history or possibly architecture . |
| 28 | Not for her , one feels fairly sure , would have been sables worn as a chemise , nor Savonnerie carpets used as underfelting . |
| 29 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 30 | Since the railway would have been Bishop 's Castle 's main link with the outside world in 1891 , we are strongly inclined to accept and the Committee will be discussing the details in future meetings . |