Example sentences of "would have [be] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Kelly 's fall had happened on a racecourse , she would have been sidelined as a matter of course . |
| 2 | Almost certainly , it would have been perceived as a sign , a portent , a palpable manifestation of God 's hand . |
| 3 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 5 | So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country . |
| 6 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 7 | The former query , until recently , would have been classified in the ‘ Housing , property and land ’ section while the latter would have been classified as a ‘ Social security ’ enquiry . |
| 8 | One might have expected , therefore , that this issue about the nature and scope of linguistic description would have been interpreted as a derived issue , so to speak , in respect of syllabus design and methodology . |
| 9 | He retorted that the choice had been to close the paper and he wished he had done that because it would have been remembered as a decent publication . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have been classed as a soft target . |
| 11 | Lloyd 's house was a three-bedroom , semi-detached in a street which about sixty years ago would have been classed as a greenfield development . |
| 12 | This would have been counted as a great success and a reasonable rate of progress in the 1850s or 1860s but was so unprecedented and so humiliating , given the contemporary assumptions about government control , that the bill was dropped . |