Example sentences of "would certainly have been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 've had tremendous support in carrying them through , and had there not been this unforeseen event , I would certainly have been expecting to , and looking forward to , carrying on doing that for quite a considerable time , but I am sure that Kenneth Clarke will carry the same reforms forward with equal gusto .
2 Had the news been bad I would certainly have been called earlier .
3 Wang would certainly have been retired from the vice-presidency at the congress .
4 He would certainly have been killed instantly had he still been at it .
5 This generation of new men might not have been elected but for the war but they would certainly have been trying to get elected in a general election in 1915 .
6 It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II .
7 ‘ David Harrison was convinced that he would have won with a clear run and while it 's hard to be definite about that , he would certainly have been placed . ’
8 They would certainly have been missed by now .
9 ‘ The examination season is now under way and Christopher would certainly have been sitting them .
10 Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him .
11 Novelties such as comprehensive schools for all would certainly have been distrusted by the civil servants who had drafted the Green Book .
12 Their favourite was the great Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367 , and had the Great Casterton villa been dug in the nineteenth century , this would certainly have been considered a victim whereas , of course , the pottery is certainly not earlier than AD 375 , and maybe much later .
13 Rain fell at Monaco — providentially for Prost , who was being pushed to the extreme by the young Ayrton Senna , and would certainly have been overtaken one lap later .
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