Example sentences of "would have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 2 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 3 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 4 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 5 | If this was coppicing , it had been somewhat fierce and the trees would have been cut back to soil level . |
| 6 | I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’ |
| 7 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 8 | At the connecting tunnel it would have been led out of the entrance to the East Shaft top by wooden launder . |
| 9 | A lot of players are being released by League clubs these days that would have been kept on before , so they end up in the Conference . |
| 10 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 11 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 12 | I remember seeing it when we went to that party , and I know , cos it would have been lit up |
| 13 | If they had found out about it , Jeffrey would have been kicked out . |
| 14 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 15 | Francis 's one idea , if he 'd lived , would have been to sell out . |
| 16 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 17 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
| 18 | Again , if there had been a Thatcherite on the programme , the Labour expert would have been blown out of the water . |
| 19 | If this had not happened nothing could have stopped him and the whole party would have been dragged down after him . |
| 20 | In my day — why , Sècheron would have been swallowed up by inner suburbs clustering round the old U.N . |
| 21 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 22 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 23 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 24 | Tinnock was penalised , but in England he would have been sent off . |
| 25 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 26 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 27 | Michael Goodman , spokesman for the Lower Ormeau Residents ' Action Group , said he had hoped any problems would have been ironed out following a meeting with Laganside , the DoE and the contractors last month . |
| 28 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |
| 29 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 30 | British Petroleum South Africa underwrote the cost of the tour , so no material loss was incurred , but either way the action deprived the West Indian Board coffers of a large amount of money which would have been ploughed back into very necessary ground and youth development in the region . |