Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 2 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 3 | Carrie thought she would rather have been beaten , herself , but Nick was triumphant . |
| 4 | The advice given by these advisers would properly have been guided by expediency as much as by any rules of interpretation and as such can not be taken to represent a body of thought about dreaming . |
| 5 | It seems likely that in glacial periods reefs would only have been karstified and not destroyed as envisaged by Daly . |
| 6 | It should be realised that the amount stocked would only have been expected to last a relatively short time . |
| 7 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
| 8 | If the injuries would only have been lessened by wearing a seat belt the damages may be reduced by 15 per cent . |
| 9 | However , these thoughts would only have been thought by a Christian audience of that time . |
| 10 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 11 | After the Synod of Whitby , all such evidence would obviously have been suppressed or destroyed . |
| 12 | Most of Leapor 's time at Weston Hall and Edgcote House would obviously have been spent working . |
| 13 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 14 | A prime minister , so the argument went , who was the subject of such a massive loss of confidence among both the political élite and the public at large would swiftly have been removed from office . |
| 15 | Eric would perhaps have been killed or wounded and the suspicious position of the car might well have been noticed by somebody . |
| 16 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |
| 17 | As a child , this pride type would perhaps have been beaten in order to subject their will to the adult and break their pride , but without success . |
| 18 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
| 19 | There was no real risk or danger — he would just have been buffeted , not seriously hurt . |
| 20 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 21 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 22 | Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time . |
| 23 | The hindbrain and midbrain structures , normally associated with relaying sensory information to the cortex , spontaneously generate signals which are responsible for the cortical activation , and are also indistinguishable from signals which would normally have been relayed from the eyes and ears . |
| 24 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 25 | However , within the single language LISP , access could , with appropriate effort , be made to the translation of GO-SHOPPING(x) as a sequence beginning WALK(x) , but the subsequent access from WALK(x) to the yet lower-level sequence beginning LIFT-RIGHT-LEG(x) is far more dubious , whatever the effort required , since that would normally have been compiled and so be inaccessible to the higher level in question , even though , as we saw , one can , in the human case , impose a new translation of WALK , in the place of the existing one . |
| 26 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 27 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 28 | Hundreds of T-shirts , jackets and trainers which would normally have been destroyed will now be put to good use in orphanages there . |
| 29 | When a tree is removed , the water which would normally have been extracted remains in the ground , which can result in swelling . |
| 30 | The BSS UK dismisses any suggestion that use of the Beltex as a terminal sire will lead to more lambing problems ; so far those who have used Beltex rams for crossing report no more incidence of assisted lambings than would normally have been dealt with . |