Example sentences of "would have be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 2 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
| 3 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
| 4 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 5 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 6 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 7 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 8 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 9 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 10 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 11 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 12 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 13 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 14 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 16 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 17 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 18 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 19 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 20 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 21 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 22 | To Paykel , it would have been considered a positive event or ‘ entrance ’ event which he would therefore not expect to correlate with depression . |
| 23 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 24 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |
| 25 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 26 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |
| 27 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 28 | To have assumed otherwise would have been to raise a number of awkward questions . |
| 29 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |
| 30 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |