Example sentences of "would have [be] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This is consistent with the existence of the 14-km-wide Lappajârvi crater in Finland , apparently the result of an impactor of carbonaceous chondritic composition ; this crater would have been excavated by a carbonaceous asteroid 1km in diameter . ) |
| 2 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 3 | However , all this is doing is attempting to build into the machines the intelligence that would have been exercised by a skilled worker in going through the labour process . |
| 4 | It was placed a little further forward along the wall of the building than would have been selected by a novice and apparently with a knowledge of the positions of the interior walls . |
| 5 | Anybody who had hoped to get past these two ladies without paying her dues would have been squelched by a look ; and the pile of dollars in front of the treasurer grew as the number of white name cards in front of Mrs MacPhail diminished . |
| 6 | Leading the rise were the prices of privatisation shares which would have been threatened by a Labour government . |
| 7 | Most of the cases determined after a trial would have been begun by a writ issued in 1985 or 1986 . |
| 8 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 9 | Among the errors that would have been eliminated by a more careful reading is the statement that Frances Power Cobbe was the only Unionist among these four women ; Millicent Fawcett was at least as opposed as Cobbe to Irish Home Rule ; and only Josephine Butler actively supported it . |
| 10 | Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction . |
| 11 | It studies ‘ snapshots ’ of the successive positions , and so discovers specific points of contact with coincidentally present blocks ( such as D ) which will interrupt the fall that would have been predicted by a theoretical physicist from equations and measurements describing A and B. As in this case , many detailed relations between blocks are implicit in the diagrammatic representation which could be explicitly stated only with the greatest difficulty . |
| 12 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
| 13 | It would have been detonated by a pull-line to a switch , a forensic scientist officer told the Coroner 's Court . |
| 14 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |