Example sentences of "would [adv] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now , although her guests had really had enough tea and would rather have been somewhere else , everyone was showing signs of impatience for another cup . |
| 2 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 3 | Exotic animals would probably have been rarities in the British arenae and even then used only for exhibition , as they would presumably have been too expensive to have suffered damage . |
| 4 | A return to the reviled rates would presumably have been too much to take . |
| 5 | ‘ It would presumably have been only a temporary interruption to your career , ’ he pointed out mercilessly . |
| 6 | Politically , any alternative would obviously have been extremely difficult to implement while among the economists in the Economic Section the allure of Keynesian economics easily distracted attention from microeconomic problems and the need to understand how economic institutions actually worked . |
| 7 | With greater beauty , I would perhaps have been sooner there . |
| 8 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 9 | It would perhaps have been more accurate in the discussion to use terms such as load and extension . |
| 10 | Soviet communism would necessarily have been temporarily rejected in order to defend Republican France and ultimately to defeat fascism . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 12 | What it seems to mean is that if this pump had been required in an emergency , it would not have been immediately available and although , after a lifetime in industry , I know that such errors and failure can and do happen , there is really no room for such occurrences in nuclear generation . |
| 13 | It would be almost inconceivable with his passion , that Green would not have been powerfully influenced by Wordsworth and , as will be shown later , in turn , reciprocated this effect . |
| 14 | An example of this effectively ‘ free ’ typesetting capability is given by their recently launched weekly job opportunity sheet which , had it had to have been typeset , would not have been financially viable . |
| 15 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 16 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 18 | One suspects that Perkins , who died in 1967 , would not have been too concerned . |
| 19 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 20 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 21 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 22 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 23 | The mistake in Mercantile Credit v. Hamblin would not have been sufficiently radical to justify a plea of non est factum . |
| 24 | But if Ashton had not made these very distinctive changes in his ports de bras , the seasonal differences would not have been so notable . |
| 25 | S&N argue they have kept Theakstons open and , presumably , would not have been so keen to do so if they could n't use the name and local appeal of the brand to advertise their Tyne Brewery beers . |
| 26 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 27 | Perhaps others , more forceful , would not have been so diffident : it is easy to imagine that Abdulnabi al-Hatash would have seen It as his duty to browbeat some sense into his juniors . |
| 28 | This would not have been so impressive if he had not previously said — for I was also with him at Murphy Radio before the war — ‘ Some people have to work , but some can run barefoot across the grass ! ’ |
| 29 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 30 | If this advice had been followed I 'm sure Mr Lee would not have been so worried . |