Example sentences of "[det] would [verb] 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 | However , it is fair to say that much would have been lost to the county if they did not exist . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 23 | Having now documented Louis 's address and instrument business near the Pont Marie Therese for the years 1691,1692 and 1712 , while the other Louis lived on the rue Marmousets and evidently worked in his brother Nicolas 's atelier ( according to common practice , he would have used his brother 's stamp ) , we can conclude that the former made instruments stamped ‘ L/Hotteterre ’ with a fleur-de-lis above , whereas instruments by the latter would have been made in the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre and stamped ‘ N/Hotteterre ’ with a six-pointed star above . |
| 24 | If another hundred of Caraher 's non-transferable votes had been transferable first to Hendron and then to Magee the latter would have been elected in place of Burns . |
| 25 | The former query , until recently , would have been classified in the ‘ Housing , property and land ’ section while the latter would have been classified as a ‘ Social security ’ enquiry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear . |
| 28 | However , but for the work of Country Houses Association many would have been lost to the nation . |
| 29 | However , but for the work of Country Houses Association many would have been lost to the nation . |
| 30 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |