Example sentences of "they would [verb] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 2 | ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses . |
| 3 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 4 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 7 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm convinced they wo n't be as confident about coming to Irvinestown as they would have been in previous seasons . |
| 9 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |