Example sentences of "would [adv] have [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 2 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 3 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 4 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 5 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 6 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 7 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 8 | Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty . |
| 9 | If I had had to justify my work in terms of clinical benefits before I started it , I would never have been given a licence . |
| 10 | As recently as 5 years ago , Leeds would never have been given the Makita tournament or chance to stage matches with a global profile . |
| 11 | Indeed , if it were to be as firmly and clearly drawn as some of our mentors would wish , I can not help feeling that a number of leading cases in your Lordships ' House would never have been decided the way they were . |
| 12 | Having taken over from Michael Barton as captain , Surridge led boldly , the sum of his character and his various skills proving formidable even if , paradoxically , he would never have been considered a batsman or bowler of the highest class . |
| 13 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 14 | Their favourite was the great Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367 , and had the Great Casterton villa been dug in the nineteenth century , this would certainly have been considered a victim whereas , of course , the pottery is certainly not earlier than AD 375 , and maybe much later . |