Example sentences of "would have been to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 2 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 3 | To have acknowledged social depression and despair would have been to have identified anger . |
| 4 | The next step would have been to have got my husband to go along — but alas it was too late , which is why I had contact with the next organization , the National Council of One Parent Families . |
| 5 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 6 | Had the situation been different and plastic bullets had been fired , the longer-term consequence would have been to have moved the police significantly towards the position where the use of baton rounds was perceived by them as an appropriate method of crowd dispersal during large-scale civil disturbance . |
| 7 | How marvellous it was to be free ; how appalling it would have been to have had to wash some man 's socks and cope with his whingeing children . |
| 8 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |