Example sentences of "would have [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 2 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 3 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 4 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 5 | Hence , the argument runs , even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services . |
| 6 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 7 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 8 | One obvious alternative to the appointment of the Commissioner would have been to give further jurisdiction to the Industrial Tribunals , instead of the High Court , to enforce such rights which now fall within the scope of the Commissioner 's work . |
| 9 | For Freud , this would have been to replace one set of dogmatic assertions with another set , held by the believers to be for ever true , and providing a sense of false security for them . |
| 10 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 11 | And then you say , ‘ if you had stated that [ the passengers were returning separately ] , you would have been issued two tickets . ’ |
| 12 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 13 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 14 | The effect of such a drastic change of ownership , especially of tribal lands , would have been to bring new capital into the area with development programmes to exploit the land for profit . |
| 15 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 16 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 17 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 18 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 19 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |