Example sentences of "[pron] would have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 2 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 3 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 4 | One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow , rocks and fallen trees . |
| 5 | I would have been isolated from nature , and natural forces , but for the fact that , from my earliest childhood , I was familiar with the sea and fishing . |
| 6 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't important , otherwise I would have been married to the ladies in question . |
| 8 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 11 | With the Russians I would have been executed on the spot . |
| 12 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 13 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 14 | I think it extremely likely that the plaintiff would have followed the inevitable recommendation from its officers which would have been to proceed with this action in order to avoid paying compensation . |
| 15 | All 60 million bags represent 60 full trailer loads , which would have been fuelled by the equivalent of one million gallons of non-renewable oil . |
| 16 | Reportedly , the Sackler maiolica was only the initial offering , which would have been followed by the collector 's bronzes and terra-cottas . |
| 17 | REJECTED the offer of running rights over the Rhyd-ddu-Porthmadog section of the W.H.R which would have been leased to the '64 Company . |
| 18 | After all spondai , meaning literally libations , was the Greek word for treaties , like the Thirty Years Peace , which would have been broken by unprovoked coercion of Megara . |
| 19 | It does n't seem plausible to think that anyone with any knowledge of the difficulties which would have been presented by trying to recover and rebuild enough aircraft to produce the film would have seriously considered the idea . |
| 20 | The purchaser claimed under two heads , first for the capital loss and secondly for his loss of profits — the latter head being based on the difference over three years between the profits made at the machine 's actual rate of output and the higher profits which would have been made at the warranted rate of output . |
| 21 | These were decisions which would have been made by the LEA before devolution . |
| 22 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 23 | Boltanski photographed each of 143 pupils when he visited London in September and he is testing the way in which art is created by its context by also sending the portraits to the pupils ' parents in return for the fee which would have been charged by the school photographer . |
| 24 | Thus , if Nissan gains market share at the expense of cars which would have been manufactured in the UK anyway , problems may be caused for other companies , especially Rover which relies principally on the UK market for its sales . |
| 25 | What this early artist has illustrated is mobbing behaviour being exploited to trap small birds , which would have been destined to be served up at table . |
| 26 | Moreover , a Marxist-Leninist analysis of foreign-policy formulation in the United States ( which would have been accepted by Guevara and also by Raúl Castro , both extremely powerful figure ) implicitly makes two assumptions which have been shown to be inaccurate : firstly , that the ’ bourgeoisie' always act in concert , and secondly , that the ruling group has control over the statements of major Interest groups within society . |
| 27 | There is , to my mind , no doubt at all but that the Turnbull & Co. v. Duval [ 1902 ] A.C. 429 line of cases demonstrates a treatment of wives who have given security to support their husband 's debts more tender than that which would have been applied to other third party sureties . |
| 28 | If there is no tuba , the part which would have been given to it will be allotted to two bassoons in unison ( if it does not go too low for them , of course ) . |
| 29 | The gross domestic product which would have been observed in that month if the prices in the selected base period had prevailed : this is called real gross domestic product ( or gross domestic product at constant prices ) . |
| 30 | We specialise in the dances which would have been danced at the court of King Charles II and wear handmade costumes of brocade and crushed velvet . |