Example sentences of "it would [verb] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 2 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 3 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 4 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 5 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |
| 6 | Det Supt Michael Hames , head of Scotland Yard 's Obscene Publica-tions branch , said if the film-makers had not called it ‘ educational ’ , then it would have been blatant pornography . |
| 7 | Mother General and Mother Clare were indeed right , it would have been preferential treatment to have financed Eve 's university education from the convent funds . |
| 8 | It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’ |
| 9 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 10 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 11 | It would have been enormous fun , she thought wistfully , to help work Water Gypsy up and down the canal system . |
| 12 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |
| 13 | Erm it would have been three days cos that 's ninety odd quid , ninety six quid . |
| 14 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 15 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 16 | Anywhere other than a rugby pitch it would have been common assault . |
| 17 | It would have been double standards . |
| 18 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |