Example sentences of "would [verb] [been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the only powers they would have then had to stop contact with the abuser would have been to take the children into care . |
| 2 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 3 | Surely , the most effective denial of this satanic allegation would have been to allow the rituals of the higher degrees to be published in full . |
| 4 | Even though the reason for permitting the employees to continue work pending the appeals may have been born out of a sense of leniency , the proper course of action would have been to suspend the employees pending the hearing of the appeals . |
| 5 | To have been too radical , however , would have been to invite the same fate as the reports of previous committees . |
| 6 | Without actually opening it , which would have been to examine the beast physiologically , Hull inferred numerous relationships between levels of motivation ( drive ) and the extent of learning ( habit strength ) that rendered a response more or less probable . |
| 7 | His normal reaction would have been to swing the car in a U-turn to return and tackle the driver of the tractor . |
| 8 | Bertha would have been sent the message that she could go hopping sideways — while she herself would have been told to get down the road and out of his sight . |
| 9 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 10 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 11 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 12 | Dr Enid Starkie would have been given the chance to swat another Mistake in Literature . |
| 13 | Forty-eight hours from now , she thought , staring at her pale reflection in the mirror , Anne Hammond would have been given the miracle of the chance of a new lease of life , while her own future seemed to stretch emptily ahead with nothing but work to fill it . |
| 14 | If she wanted us to blame Burrows by faking an entry point , surely the simplest thing would have been to leave the window open ? |
| 15 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 16 | The best approach would have been to do the more straightforward bits first and to spend only the allocated time — 36 minutes — and no longer . |
| 17 | … 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 . |
| 18 | They would have been chewing the carpet but for the fact that the floor was concrete . |
| 19 | Many believe that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency , the party would have been saved the turmoil of the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 20 | The sensible response would have been to increase the number of officers , not to cut them . |
| 21 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 22 | An alternative approach would have been to apply the ‘ ready-made ’ system of apportionment in the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 to liability in conversion . |
| 23 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 24 | It was a technological triumph and a magnificent intelligence coup , or would have been had the Russians not know about it all the time . |
| 25 | Perhaps it would have been had the South American dealer not ignored his every letter , fax and telephone call requesting confirmation of delivery date . |
| 26 | The picture that we now have from Oppenheimer 's work is as follows : The gravitational field of the star changes the paths of light rays in space-time from what they would have been had the star not been present . |
| 27 | As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government . |
| 28 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 29 | The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs . |
| 30 | They share one feature in common , namely an attempt to quantify what the condition of , say , the balance of trade would have been had the country in question not participated in the CU . |