Example sentences of "[adj] would have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 2 | Normally , this would have been achieved by mandatory budget cuts . |
| 3 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 4 | For Freud , this would have been to replace one set of dogmatic assertions with another set , held by the believers to be for ever true , and providing a sense of false security for them . |
| 5 | If Parliament had intended to depart from the break-even basis , he argued , this would have been enacted expressly in Part 1 of the Act where the general duties of the policy-maker , the GLC , were set ; and added : ‘ But section 1(1) says nothing to suggest the exclusion of the fiduciary duty to the rate payers . ’ |
| 6 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 7 | All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order . |
| 8 | This would have been disapproved by purists . |
| 9 | Originally this would have been made with the Moroccan pastry ouarka , but filo pastry is fine . |
| 10 | Owing to faster population growth and an internal migration rate approaching 10% , an additional 1 in 10 sample was taken in 1966 and this would have been repeated in 1976 but for economic stringencies . |
| 11 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 12 | If you had n't come round that night , none of this would have been allowed to happen — ’ |
| 13 | This would have been distracting when used in training . |
| 14 | But I think in seconding this motion I think it 's a way forward and I think it 's better late than never I think what it talks about that we would not be here today Mr Chairman if this would have been agreed by what was put by the officers two and half years ago . |
| 15 | The effect of this would have been to transfer responsibility for venue decisions from the magistrates to the prosecution , while preserving the defendant 's right to opt for jury trial . |
| 16 | This would have been counted as a great success and a reasonable rate of progress in the 1850s or 1860s but was so unprecedented and so humiliating , given the contemporary assumptions about government control , that the bill was dropped . |
| 17 | This would have been delivered on Saturday evening by Mr. Bishop of Woodfords , the Downton bakers , who also made a delivery on Tuesdays . |
| 18 | Some would have been formed into bomb-ketches and armed with mortars and howitzers . |
| 19 | As the solar luminosity rose some of this CO 2 would have been liberated , but it can be shown to be unlikely that sufficient CO 2 would be liberated to yield present conditions . |
| 20 | The Gazza of old would have been tempted to flick that ball in the air and juggle away an outstanding chance for his team . |
| 21 | In the 1960s the fact of more than one million unemployed would have been heralded as foreboding ‘ the end of civilization as we know it ’ . |
| 22 | However , it is fair to say that much would have been lost to the county if they did not exist . |
| 23 | If a small proportion of the effort and money given to the study of immunology and human disease had been given to the study of pharmacogenetics in specific disease states much would have been learned . |
| 24 | What could legitimately be described as ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Malham Cove in the early 70s would have been regarded as quite normal in the early 60s and would be considered style of pathological purity in the 90s . |
| 25 | The redemption value is also linked to the rate of inflation so that , taking the above rate of inflation as being relevant , the original 100 would have been increased to 105.5 ( 100 ) ( 1.055 ) . |
| 26 | ( A recent guesstimate suggests " 600-700 counties " in the Carolingian Empire as a whole of which perhaps 100 would have been located in Charles 's western kingdom ; but given the frequency with which multiple countships were held by one man , there can be no straight translation from numbers of counties to numbers of counts . ) |
| 27 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 28 | Following the Romans ' introduction of the geared watermill into England , many such mills were established — the Domesday Book lists 5,624 mills , although a good proportion of these would have been worked by horses or oxen rather than water . |
| 29 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 30 | This increase is particularly impressive since the decline in marriage rates in the 1970s would have been expected to reduce household formation among young people , since historically young married couples have tended to set up their own households , and young single people to remain with their parents . |