Example sentences of "would have been [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ said William , as if it had completely slipped his mind and he 'd have been quite happy talking about Satan and Hell and related matters for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 2 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 3 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 4 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 5 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 6 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 7 | Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day . |
| 8 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 9 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 10 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 11 | It was calculated that the estimated time en route would have been approximately three hours and thirty-one minutes with a fuel reserve of thirty-two minutes if the flight was flown at an altitude of 31,000 feet , and a fuel reserve of nineteen minutes if the flight was flown at 28,000 feet . |
| 12 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 13 | Knowing that the sergeant-major , the most senior layman , would have been incredibly nervous Eva did as she was told . |
| 14 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 15 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 16 | There would have been more medical concern . |
| 17 | Surely that would have been only common courtesy ? |
| 18 | But in other families where flight is less important and both streamers and graduated tails have evolved , our analysis suggests that during their initial evolution , streamers would have been relatively poor indicators of male quality . |
| 19 | Surely with one of these at fullback both England and Australia would have been far stronger units . |
| 20 | We would have been together nineteen years this year . ’ |
| 21 | There would have been less practical difficulty about saying that trade ceased when business ceased actively to be carried on , because there was a further period of a year during which a petition could be presented . |
| 22 | Equally , had county councils shown greater vision , more smaller settlements would have been built , and there would have been less urban sprawl , less despoliation of county towns , and fewer hideous spec-building estates on the fringes of attractive old villages . |
| 23 | Whilst we were still looking at the blaze , Marjorie Truckle ( Ernie 's sister ) , who would have been about thirteen years of age , came rushing across the field with a message from their mother — |
| 24 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 25 | I believe we lost them all the moment he began lying to me — which would have been about four hours after he first climbed into bed somewhere strange , with someone else . |
| 26 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 27 | This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round . |
| 28 | The local man replied " There would have been as much enthusiasm if you had done the same tonight . " |
| 29 | it would have been about that time , yes , or soon after |
| 30 | As these activities became more intense a greater demand would have been placed on those who made it possible , the food-producers , who would have been under increasing pressure to maximise output . |