Example sentences of "[noun] that would have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |
| 2 | It 's the car that would have been built if production had continued . |
| 3 | 2.42 As regards the savings that would have been made by the deceased , Lord Reid thought that the widow and daughter would have had an interest in any capital that the deceased might have accumulated before his death , but he concluded that the widow might have died before her husband whereas the daughter would almost certainly have survived him . |
| 4 | It 's not really helpful to be able to say , that the amount of money is too great , to refer to percentage increases which are higher than the figure that would have been included by erm erm an opposition group . |
| 5 | Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours . |
| 6 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 7 | For example , while LMS gives the governing body the power to cut their school 's staffing establishment , they also have the power to exceed the level that would have been fixed by the LEA . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Mr Wilson 's anonymous advisory committee was forced to accept many applications from little-known galleries that would have been rejected in earlier years . |
| 9 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 10 | With a ruthlessness that would have been complimented by Ace if he 'd known , she threw her mind totally back into her work . |
| 11 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 12 | But yes , the trend is the same as the national one , there is an increase in arson , possibly that 's also influenced by the fact that we 're better at detecting arson and we 're becoming increasingly more so as the years go by , and calls that would have been recorded as unknown in the past , would now be recorded as this . |
| 13 | Let us imagine the unspeakable agonies of horror that would have been suffered by someone in — I will not say a less exalted — a different position who had been similarly vilified . |
| 14 | Like the polished wood that covered surfaces that would have been painted metal in any other car … |
| 15 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 16 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There is sometimes a hidden symbolism that would have been apparent to people at that time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 21 | His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day . |
| 22 | ‘ I think under the circumstances that would have been very unwise . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 25 | Two crews that would have been especially grateful for this kind of compensation were Dennis Arlett and Patricial Lagesse whose accumulated woes would not let them pass Gao while , even more heart-rending was the final submission of the chassis previously held together by Jean-Christophe Savzey and Claire de Valbray — an agonizing 50km from the finish . |
| 26 | A lot of players are being released by League clubs these days that would have been kept on before , so they end up in the Conference . |
| 27 | ’ How unwelcome an epitaph that would have been . |
| 28 | It was no part of Owen 's plan to let his whole company lurk there , now that they were compromised ; in case of close inquiry that would have been all too clear an indication of Llewelyn 's unofficial complicity in the enterprise , and however little doubt Isambard himself might have on that head , it would not do to let it be established and admitted . |
| 29 | When the NRA was formed it inherited 12 fixed-site water-quality monitoring stations that would have been prohibitively expensive to modernise . |
| 30 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |