Example sentences of "would have been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 2 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 3 | Had they returned the Americans would certainly not have expected another raid and victory would have been assured for the Japanese . |
| 4 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 5 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 6 | If rigorous logic had been followed , no payment at all would have been made for the transfer of development value to the state but this as the Uthwatt Committee had pointed out , would have resulted in considerable hardship in individual cases . |
| 7 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 8 | If he had eaten the grain instead , he and his family would not now be starving , but they would be homeless and the remains of the grain would have been seized for the debt . |
| 9 | One wonders whether an England bowler would have been picked for a tour after a start like that . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 11 | Somerset 's last wicket fell at 6.15pm , and in the ordinary course of events play would have been suspended for the day . |
| 12 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 13 | The instructor 's braking would have been required for the stopping if the pupil had not braked . |