Example sentences of "would have been [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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2 It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that .
3 In this Law shared the view of his party , but it would have been substantially the same without him .
4 I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none .
5 the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer .
6 come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a
7 The happy outcome would have been precisely the same in either case .
8 Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’
9 Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser .
10 Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’
11 But things would have been much the same .
12 The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same .
13 This would have been quite a popular route .
14 It would have been quite a sexy story if it was true — lots of money involved .
15 ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities .
16 Under Section 37 of Britain 's Mental Health Act , he would have been legally a free man if he had remained at large for another hour .
17 Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen .
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