Example sentences of "would [adv] have [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books . |
| 2 | This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines . |
| 3 | For if only he could fly free then perhaps this life of hers would not have been in vain . |
| 4 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 5 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 6 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 7 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |
| 8 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 9 | She would n't have been at all surprised if she were . |
| 10 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |
| 11 | If things had gone according to plan , Jack would n't have been within 325 000 kilometres of Apollo 13 on that fateful day , 13 April . |
| 12 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 13 | They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence . |
| 14 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position . |
| 16 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |