Example sentences of "would have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such costs compare with many tens of billions of dollars a year saved in wages and productivity which would have been lost due to sickness caused by air pollution and for the annual benefits ( reduced medical treatment ; less damage to buildings , crops and forests ) to the nation as a whole of a less polluted society . |
| 2 | Not only did his broadsides provide the only small check there was against wholesale malai excesses , they alerted the population to what would have been kept secret . |
| 3 | Isabel wondered why she had n't thought of using the laundry gate herself , before she realised that it would have been kept locked . |
| 4 | She would have been kept busy and occupied , and well away from the sight , smell and temptation of food . |
| 5 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 6 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
| 7 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 8 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 9 | Hence , the argument runs , even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services . |
| 10 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 11 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 12 | The " vulgar tongue " abounded with colloquialisms suggesting that a particular term conferred a legitimacy which would have been made questionable by a more generalised synonym for stealing . |
| 13 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 14 | That would have been considered vulgar . |
| 15 | Even ten years ago the idea that English-speaking children should be educated completely in a foreign language for every subject , including science , without actual specific prior tuition or without reinforcement at home , would have been considered strange to say the least . |
| 16 | It is shown that there was very often little to be gained from approaching government institutions with attitudes which would have been considered proper by British administrators . |
| 17 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 18 | Family planning was in the air ; newspapers and women 's magazines were openly discussing family planning by the 1930s in a manner which would have been considered outrageous just ten years before . |
| 19 | If they had come from any other man or woman in the kingdom of Scotland , they would have been considered treasonable ; writing to her brother Henry , Margaret made constant pleas for the English to send troops into Scotland to restore her as Regent and crush any opposition to her and the Earl of Angus . |
| 20 | A decade ago this sight would have been deemed impossible by most readers . |
| 21 | If the accused had taken the paper itself , he would have been found guilty of theft of that piece of paper if he did not intend to return it , but that charge does not reflect the nub of what the accused did , namely cheat . |
| 22 | The Avila press believe , as do we , that had a proper search been conducted from the beginning , Jeremy would have been found alive . |
| 23 | One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray . |
| 24 | Even five years ago an attendance of less than 35,000 would have been thought surprising . |
| 25 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
| 26 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |
| 27 | Adults would have been thought foolish to take part in what were now only infantile amusements . |
| 28 | A term of x years imprisonment to be served and y years suspended might be imposed , when previously x would have been thought sufficient . |
| 29 | The violent , dangerous and delinquent youth of the magistrates and NAS were also present in the statements of individual Chief Constables and representatives of the Police Federation who articulated publicly their own theories on the causes of crime in a manner which would have been thought unthinkable a few years previously . |
| 30 | Alas , one knows only too well that if Life magazine had had to cough up just one dollar for every time one has oneself cried ‘ Eureka ’ , or its golfing counterpart , that American publication would have been bled dry . |