Example sentences of "would [verb] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 2 | For a murderer in a hurry , and this murderer had been in a hurry , it would have been a tedious and uncertain way to get a light . |
| 3 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 4 | ‘ My grandmother would have been a hundred and forty this Christmas , ’ Doris began again and then lapsed into silence . |
| 5 | So it should would have been a hundred and forty five . |
| 6 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 7 | However , physically to move the records in line with this boundary reorganisation would have been a formidable and costly task , so enquiries continue to be dealt with under the old district boundaries . |