Example sentences of "would have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 2 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 3 | I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think . |
| 4 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 5 | That was not because Bill was Bill , but because it would have been such an outrageous lie , as Bill 's father would realize . |
| 6 | Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed . |
| 7 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 8 | But er you know , and it would have been such a waste cos he 's bright . |
| 9 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 10 | ‘ But for the intrusion of editorial conscience there would have been many more , ’ he wrote in the preface . |
| 11 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 12 | Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication . |
| 13 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 14 | He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself . |
| 15 | If proper security valves , which close after initial pressure is dissipated , had been used the pollution would have been much less , says Moeri . |
| 16 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 17 | Northamptonshire paid £1,000 in coat-and-conduct money alone , though as an inland shire its expenses on fortification would have been much less than Norfolk 's . |
| 18 | So he obviously would n't have thought the union would have been much of a threat to him seeing as he |
| 19 | Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family . |
| 20 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 21 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Erm that would have been much much quicker if they 'd bothered and organized them but they had n't organized anything . |
| 24 | We could have just done the place over and that would have been that . |
| 25 | It would have been that . |
| 26 | The kind of company he would most have liked would have been that of a family , his own . |
| 27 | In other words , the effect would have been that , even where official DSS error was proven and admitted in the case of those receiving supplementary benefit prior to 1988 , no back payment to rectify the error would have been made . |
| 28 | would have been that er discrepancy . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 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 . |