Example sentences of "they would have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without tools , when the original Shakers landed , they would have been hard put to it to manage . |
| 2 | Yet , without doubt , they would have been horrified by Morris Zapp and what he stood for . |
| 3 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 4 | They would have been invaluable to the inquiry — and to the crew , as book and movie offers pour in — but were lost when the wreck was smashed to pieces on the island 's rocks . |
| 5 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 6 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 7 | This was certainly true of England last Wednesday , their back line in such stark disarray , so frequently outsmarted and embarrassingly wrongfooted by intelligently applied Polish speed and trickery that but for Shilton 's alertness and determined auxiliary support from midfield they would have been overwhelmed . |
| 8 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 9 | Before 1914 they would have been mainly peasant-workers commuting twice a year to the cities , gentry and their numerous domestic servants moving from their estates to town , kustari with their wares for sale , government servants , and the military , etc . |
| 10 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 11 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 12 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 13 | This attitude , on the part of their sources , is basically foreign to Marx 's and Engels 's overall work , and one feels they would have been more at home with the work of more modern prehistorians . |
| 14 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 15 | They would have been only too happy to accept the maximum . |
| 16 | People are her lifeline ; they would have been whoever she had married . |
| 17 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 18 | If they had not , they would have been vulnerable to a Conservative chancellor 's most unlikely weapon , a windfall-profits tax . |
| 19 | They would have been reluctant to admit that the human mind , confronted with the mysteries of life and death , has found some common ground in all cultures and in all known periods of history . |
| 20 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 21 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 22 | They would have been appreciated more in America . |
| 23 | If they had our electoral system they would have been the government . ’ |
| 24 | They would have been chewing the carpet but for the fact that the floor was concrete . |
| 25 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 26 | With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ . |
| 27 | They were published in America but never appeared in Britain — where , according to Hall , they would have been ‘ too much frowned upon ’ . |
| 28 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 29 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 30 | Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today . |