Example sentences of "[subord] would [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 2 | The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria . |
| 3 | In fact that familiarity can sometimes be deceptive ; behind the restored classical vocabulary lurk more of the earlier aristocratic assumptions than would have been conceded by most nineteenth-century historians ; so if anthropological interpretations become less useful , there is still danger in pushing narrowly juridical ones . |
| 4 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 5 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 6 | This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent . |
| 7 | ‘ Our relative losses have been higher than would have been accepted in a listed plc , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Even so , it is a great deal more than would have been credited to a bird even a few years ago . |
| 9 | It was placed a little further forward along the wall of the building than would have been selected by a novice and apparently with a knowledge of the positions of the interior walls . |
| 10 | This would ensure , inter alia , that defendants charged with relatively trivial acts would neither suffer the stigma of conviction for a serious offence with a high penalty nor would run the risk of a more severe sentence than would have been dispensed under the old law . |
| 11 | Do US president Bill Clinton and British prime minister John Major have more in common than would have been guessed from their brief meeting earlier this month ? |
| 12 | Polarisation tended to occur more on simpler machines , which could be programmed off the shop floor and operated by those with less skill than would have been required for conventional machines doing work of that complexity . |
| 13 | The number of pubs freed from ties as a result of the undertakings required by the Secretary of State will be much greater than would have been required under the orders . |
| 14 | In some ways sculptors became more adventurous , creating figures of larger scale and with more expansive poses than would have been tried in the first century . |
| 15 | A sophisticated statistical evaluation suggested that in the late fifties and early sixties the plan provided better pictures of the evolution of the economy than would have been derived simply by extrapolating past trends . |
| 16 | ‘ Cardinal Stuart , ’ wrote the British minister in Florence to Horace Walpole , ‘ by putting on the cowle [ i.e. cardinal 's hat ] has done more to extinguish his party than would have been effected by putting to death many thousand of deluded followers . ’ |
| 17 | Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government . |
| 18 | Mr Jack Meredith , chairman of the AMA 's public transport committee , said that while bus patronage was declining prior to deregulation , the Tyson report showed that the fall in journeys was between 100 and 200 million more than would have been expected . |
| 19 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |
| 20 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 21 | To be fair , Potter was behaving better than would have been expected — cold yet civil . |
| 22 | The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine . |
| 23 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |
| 24 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 25 | They could maintain the status quo , by charging the same in depreciation as would have been charged in principal repayments . |
| 26 | Er and as would have been noted in the in our report to this general assembly on page four hundred and nine , we say at the end of er the paragraph in the middle of the the page in which we are referring to ACTS and its commissions , in this connection it should be noted that the church 's approach to the Roman Catholic bishops conference of Scotland on the question of intercommunion is under discussion in that conference and in the ACTS commission on unity faith and order . |
| 27 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 28 | This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected . |
| 29 | As would have been expected , the construction with the bare infinitive expresses direct perception of an event — to be more precise , the possibility of direct perception ( because of could and might have ) . |
| 30 | In computing the liability to income tax of a settlor chargeable under s677 the same deductions and reliefs shall be allowed as would have been allowed if the amount treated as income by virtue of s677 had been received by him as income . |