Example sentences of "would [adv] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important would obviously have been the particular use of a vessel in the pantry or kitchen , on the dining table , or for drinking . |
| 2 | As this met the requirements of the hotel , serving customers would merely have been a needless waste of effort and resources which could be profitably siphoned off elsewhere . |
| 3 | A decade ago there would scarcely have been a single one . |
| 4 | Driving through London in a strange car , even on a Sunday evening , would normally have been a terrifying prospect . |
| 5 | Their progress was hampered by the vast crowds and the cars that thronged what would normally have been a clear area but people soon scattered from their path as with lights flashing and sirens wailing they forged ahead . |
| 6 | He would hardly have been a natural companion for the Prime Minister , Mrs Baldwin and Tom Jones during a quiet evening of patience in the Long Gallery at Chequers . |
| 7 | Near to large rivers and lakes , fishing would always have been a major activity , particularly for salmon and the ubiquitous eels . |
| 8 | If the wage rate had fallen , say , by 10% and the total employment had increased , as a result , by 5% , there would still have been a net 5% loss in total labor income . |
| 9 | According to the singularity theorems of classical general relativity , there would still have been a big bang singularity . |
| 10 | Even if Piłsudski had been a socialist , he would still have been an independent Polish socialist in Moscow 's eyes . |
| 11 | His former club , who grabbed their place in the Premier League via a 4–3 play-off final victory over Leicester City , would probably have been a prime candidate for relegation in any event . |
| 12 | For foot traffic , a distance of some 10–12 km ( 6–7 miles ) would probably have been a more-than-adequate day 's journey , especially if burdened with goods and needing to leave enough time for their disposal at the destination . |
| 13 | Well I , I 'm not sure of , here again he 's making another turn is n't he and er you 're going back to as I say , what would probably have been the lesser of two evils . |
| 14 | This dog would clearly have been a dual champion had he not been killed at an early age , constituting a great loss to the Australian show scene . |
| 15 | if it existed , would also have been a causal circumstance for c , and , we might add , would not have been part of a causal sequence including cc . |
| 16 | The sheer timing would also have been an enormous problem . |
| 17 | It would also have been an open invitation to civic disturbance . |
| 18 | He would hardly have risen as high as his colleague Lloyd George but , had he lived , would surely have been a major figure in the Liberal government of 1905–15 . |
| 19 | There would surely have been a strong argument for it to take its gauge from the parent line and worry about the break of gauge later , when it met the Cambrian — which of course would probably not have happened . |
| 20 | But 1940 would surely have been a different tale , if 1937 and 1938 were anything to go by . |
| 21 | Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself . |
| 22 | Had Lloyd George felt compelled to send British troops there would undoubtedly have been a massive outcry , including , quite possibly , strike action . |
| 23 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 24 | If they 'd not intervened er then indeed the consequences would certainly have been a communist victory so the intervention was necessary to maintain that policy position . |