Example sentences of "[pron] would have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been a bit more calm , I would have thought , ‘ There 's someone out there 1 6 who cares . ’ |
| 2 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 3 | I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess . |
| 4 | I would have been a street killer |
| 5 | Without your help I would have been a frog for ever . |
| 6 | If I had asked myself these questions before I rushed into marriage , I would have been a lot better off . |
| 7 | I would have been the scapegoat for anything bad they wrote afterwards . |
| 8 | I am certainly not impotent which would have been a worry . |
| 9 | BP and its partners , who have been licensed by the Government to drill for oil in the area , have consulted closely with the Trust and have ruled out the easiest and cheapest development option , which would have been a ten-acre onshore site at Studland . |
| 10 | It is hardly surprising , then , that one observer thought this such ‘ a scene of riot , confusion , destruction of property , and injury to persons which would have been a disgrace to a savage land ’ . |
| 11 | This would have probably entailed working involuntary overtime , possibly long , awkward hours and , almost certainly , making a physical input , one consequence of which would have been a limit on the amount of time spent with the children and energy contributed to their amusement . |
| 12 | ( See also Sunley ( 1990 ) , and note that Griffin does not accept the above interpretation , but rather prefers one which sees the Nottinghamshire miners as determined to avoid splits within the union , which would have been the case if the rule-book , specifically Rule 43 — p. 107 — had been adhered to in 1984 . ) |
| 13 | It was much harder to imagine Pascoe taking gloves and a knife with him when he went to MacQuillan 's office and creeping up behind him , and there was no evidence of a struggle between the dead man and his attacker which would have been the case if the killer had not approached from behind . |
| 14 | However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable . |
| 15 | So , although interpreting her character nowadays , she is quite immoral and dishonest , to the Christian audience in those days , she would have been a heroine . |
| 16 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 17 | Had the yacht not lost her mast during one of the Lymington autumn series races last year , she would have been a contender for top boat . |
| 18 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 19 | Who would have been the heir ? |
| 20 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 21 | You 've Radio York all week , they must have been over er over overwhelmed for callers I imagine this week , I would have thought you would have been a boon to anybody 's talk show . |
| 22 | ‘ Even if the poetry reading had turned out to be a giant bore , the audience itself would have been an event ’ , McGrath added . |
| 23 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 24 | The way we played when beating Leicester at Filbert , we would have been a match for any side , including Villa . ’ |
| 25 | One would have been the creation of a new light source , about as great as the sun . |
| 26 | ‘ There would 've been a riot . ’ |
| 27 | Before there would have been a striker in there to finish it , so that 's the way to do it , you know the roles are reversed and we 've getting a bit of luck . |
| 28 | In the so called ‘ good old days ’ , when furniture-making was centred on Shoreditch , there would have been a polisher down the road . |
| 29 | ‘ There would have been a panic . |
| 30 | Additionally there would have been a Wardrobe Mistress to arrange costuming , and a Make-up Lady to ensure no-one 's nose gleamed under the studio lights . |