Example sentences of "[noun] would have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult . |
| 2 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |
| 3 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 4 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |
| 5 | Had the mill not been built , acting as it was , a barrier across the tidal tributary , the idyllic scene on the other side would have been vastly different . |
| 6 | In the 1960s £2-£3 would have been enough . |
| 7 | The defendant would have been better advised to display his notice in a prominent position near the reception desk . |
| 8 | It was not actively hostile to the construction of owner-occupied stock , but its own intended programme was so large that the potential demand for such stock would have been much reduced . |
| 9 | And just like Windsor , the Hofburg Palace was uninsured because premiums would have been so high . |
| 10 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 13 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 14 | Is the client entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that the contractor would have been late anyway ? |
| 15 | Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities . |
| 16 | The stagnation would have been much worse had the banks , with whom the sheiks deposited their unspent dollars , not quickly recycled them to governments and enterprises in developing countries where rates of return on invested capital were high and the potential growth seemed relatively high , at least initially . |
| 17 | JUST a year ago , a journalist would have been as welcome at the opening meet of Prince Charles 's favourite hunt as Saddam Hussein at a Royal garden party . |
| 18 | Lord Denning said that the result would have been otherwise if the plaintiff had been e.g. hit in the eye by a shot from a negligent sportsman . |
| 19 | Boro saw a 16-point lead cut in half as Long Eaton , outclassed in the opening races , won four of the last seven heats and the margin of defeat would have been less had the impressive Dane Jan Staechmann not slid into the safety boards in the final race when set for his fourth win of the night . |
| 20 | David Seaman was excellent for us , saving so many one-against-ones otherwise the defeat would have been much heavier . |
| 21 | Phillips what a wonderful ball that almost turned out be there because er Crosby had it not been a better defender would have been in behind Whitlow . |
| 22 | I do n't think the interview would have been so good with a younger man . |
| 23 | If I had our impromptu interview would have been quickly and suddenly over . |
| 24 | The consequences of successive devaluations of the ‘ green ’ pound were also referred to by Mr Ramsay , who said ‘ With the compensation calculated at 80p per ecu as it was last September a high-yielding arable farm of 1,000 acres would have been over £48,000 worse off between 1993 and 1995 but now , with the rate at 98p per ecu that same farm 's cross margin will drop by just under £2,000 . |
| 25 | Opinion polls suggested that the centre parties would have been hard put to deliver many of their supporters to Labour under an electoral pact . |
| 26 | DEC says turnover would have been essentially flat without the favourable impact of foreign exchange . |
| 27 | In many respects a superb centre , even if it was poorly served by public transport and lacked the atmosphere of the Casa de Campo , the new complex would have been too large and expensive for a leaner fair with a thinner list of participating galleries . |
| 28 | Intriguing but unimportant differences were that the Earth spun much faster in those early days — so the days and nights were much shorter ; and the moon was much closer , so it would have appeared vast in the sky ( if there had been any creature to observe it ) and the tides would have been far more dramatic . |
| 29 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 30 | God knows , dear Kataya would have been so proud of you . ’ |