Example sentences of "it would [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 2 | On any world in the Empire it would have been recognised with reverence as a sign of his status as a member of the royal family . |
| 3 | If I had given my advice it would have been ignored . ’ |
| 4 | I remember seeing it when we went to that party , and I know , cos it would have been lit up |
| 5 | To begin with , it would have been based on absolute desperation . |
| 6 | It would have been puzzling had Anthony Quayle not been disturbed . |
| 7 | If it had a face , it would have been sneering . |
| 8 | But it was quite uncanny — three days earlier it would have been completely covered in snow and they 'd never have seen it : three days later it would have been stripped to a skeleton . ’ |
| 9 | It would have been handled , she knew , with all the caution that the dust from the moon had been , since it might have proven to be toxic as any of the man-made monstrosities aboard Titron . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , there have been Garlands running that business for nearly ninety years , but it would have been run my way . ’ |
| 11 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 12 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 13 | Had we had her account available our guess is that it would have been expressed in such a way as to suggest a quite different kind of story , where personal rather than biological matters were at issue . |
| 14 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 15 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 16 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 17 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 18 | It would have been exercised in Berry ( No. 2 ) to determine issues exclusively addressed before the Court of Appeal and without questioning , let alone ‘ destroying , ’ any ruling on a point of law by the House of Lords . |
| 19 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |
| 20 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 21 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 22 | Thus , unless the table shown is a reproduction , which it is not , it would have been made within a comparatively short period . |
| 23 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 24 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 25 | Had it been new information , it would have been presented independently in the predicate , because this is where new information normally occurs in English : Heseltine has been appointed as Minister of the Environment . |
| 26 | Had this been a scene in a movie , it would have been followed by pistol shots and , no doubt , the entry of a deadly snake into the Sigmoid tent . |
| 27 | But by the time you were born I could n't give up Other world ; I was deep in the battle we wage here against the powers of the dark , and to leave it would have been deserting . |
| 28 | A string function which returns the string form of the numeric argument as it would have been printed . |
| 29 | If the usual course had been followed it would have been discovered that there was no second statement , or at least none in Miss Tucker 's present lawyers ' possession . |
| 30 | She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain . |