Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growing in the arable fields during the summer months would have been a crop of barley amongst which various weeds were growing , including fat-hen , common orache and black bindweed . |
| 2 | ‘ A train pulled in just 15 seconds after the blast if it had been a bit earlier then the casualties would have been a hell of a lot worse , ’ said eye-witness Andy Anderson , a Financial Times journalist . |
| 3 | My jubilation those first few years was due to the fact that , since I had never grown anything before , any edibles would have been a miracle , let alone this bounty . |
| 4 | Sails would have been a hindrance . |
| 5 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 6 | If the vote had gone against them , the bombs would have been a gesture of defiance ; as it is , they are sheer triumphalism . |
| 7 | Since the communists were widely seen as an anti-national party , free elections would have been a disaster . |
| 8 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |