Example sentences of "would [adv] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would presumably have been aware that Skelton had undergone a tremendous expansion on its south side ? |
| 2 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 3 | Clearly the prices shown would only have been achievable if 8.9 per cent p.a. were the prevailing rate of return on Treasury bills throughout the 91 days . |
| 4 | Secondly , even if the plaintiff could have sued the armed robbers , they would only have been liable for depriving the plaintiff of a damaged left leg . |
| 5 | When the colleges merged , it would obviously have been ludicrous to run two applied physics courses , and therefore the staff on one of the courses were kept on to teach a physical science course which was |
| 6 | The Nordic states were reluctant to enter into any kind of commitment , but would perhaps have been willing to follow a British lead , while in France and the Low Countries British participation was regarded as an indispensable guarantee of security against both a resurgence of German militarism and the shadowy threat of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | It would just have been possible to detour and commit the murder in Cross Street , but it would have been a very tight schedule indeed . |
| 8 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 9 | Any girls born that year would , by tradition , have been fated to make men unhappy , and would thus have been hard to marry off . |
| 10 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 11 | In discussions about ‘ choice ’ , for instance , it would thus have been unrealistic to think of the number of alternative daily papers as growing from nine in 1945 to twelve in 1990 . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Schlüter called the December 1990 elections earlier than would normally have been necessary in an attempt to obtain a firm mandate for far-reaching economic reforms . |
| 13 | In an attempt to find the causes for their disappointment many who would normally have been content with everyday party politics turned to more radical solutions . |
| 14 | He landed him invitations to society dances where Jack would normally have been lucky to be collecting coats at the door . |
| 15 | Though , if he were honest , he would normally have been able to eat it . |
| 16 | This move was executed overnight , with little time to spare , for Kluck , believing both French and British forces already defeated , was still marching westward at maximum speed and would shortly have been able to envelop the BEF 's left flank . |
| 17 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 18 | Thus what would once have been typical neurotic conflicts between the ego and the id are much more likely to present themselves today as delinquency and compulsive acting-out . |
| 19 | Straw that would once have been used to bed the cattle down is now put into a boiler as fuel to heat the offices . |
| 20 | It would hardly have been consistent to bring it back now . |
| 21 | This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association . |
| 22 | The boy would hardly have been stupid enough to invent the tale about the lamps and it was easily possible that Ernie Passmore had been mistaken about the night . |
| 23 | This book would hardly have been possible without the help of the long memories of two gentlemen who were children at Foxton during the time of the Lift . |
| 24 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 25 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 26 | This was a technique which had evolved during the 1930s and would hardly have been practical either for Craddock at St Mary 's in 1929 or , perhaps , even for Raistrick in 1931 . |
| 27 | Flaubert would hardly have been surprised at the lazy rush to understand . |
| 28 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 29 | Clearly , combined earnings of more than £2 a week must have quite commonly been brought into the households of mule spinners , while £2.50 would hardly have been exceptional . |
| 30 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |