Example sentences of "would have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This is consistent with the existence of the 14-km-wide Lappajârvi crater in Finland , apparently the result of an impactor of carbonaceous chondritic composition ; this crater would have been excavated by a carbonaceous asteroid 1km in diameter . ) |
| 2 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 3 | If usury was wrong in itself then the Israelites would have been prohibited from charging interest on any funds lent , not just funds lent to fellow Jews . |
| 4 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 5 | I mean , the sensible thing would have been to go to her room , would n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 7 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 8 | Frankly , I 'd only have needed to brush my hand against my trouser zip before security guards would have been called for . |
| 9 | This was a case for which a substantial punishment was called for , and in the absence of a plea of guilty , a sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) of at least two years would have been called for . |
| 10 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 11 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 13 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 14 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 15 | If Kelly 's fall had happened on a racecourse , she would have been sidelined as a matter of course . |
| 16 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 17 | However , but for the work of Country Houses Association many would have been lost to the nation . |
| 18 | However , it is fair to say that much would have been lost to the county if they did not exist . |
| 19 | However , but for the work of Country Houses Association many would have been lost to the nation . |
| 20 | Owen would have told the man to run on but without him he would have been lost at once . |
| 21 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 22 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 23 | Steve estimated around £800 would have been lost in bar takings because of the club 's early shutdown . |
| 24 | One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow , rocks and fallen trees . |
| 25 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 26 | If Cramlington had been a designated New Town then all their housing would have been built on land which was designated as housing land before it was sold to them . |
| 27 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |
| 28 | As Graham Crowe said ‘ If all the 710 technicians sold as well as Brian Miller , then £34.5 million extra business would have been generated for Pest Control ’ . |
| 29 | Had August 's weather been kinder , the duo would have been displayed on the Ark 's famous ski-jump ! |
| 30 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |