Example sentences of "would have [been] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
| 2 | This was not Paul Lexington pushing the boat out for the cast , which would have been very out of character ; it was for the ticket agencies . |
| 3 | A Great White would have been less out of place . |
| 4 | I had sold the contents of the cottages to the incoming purchaser , as well as several large pieces from the melin which would have been quite out of place in a modern house . |
| 5 | A mock letter , which would have been totally out of place in the serious political context of the Young Socialists , declared : |
| 6 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 7 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 8 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |