Example sentences of "would have [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've been cosine . |
| 2 | Clearly , there would have been conflict and confusion over what had and had not been devolved . |
| 3 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 4 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 5 | Probably , at the present day , such service on such request would have raised a promise by implication to pay what it was worth , and the subsequent promise of a sum certain would have been evidence for the jury to fix the amount . ’ |
| 6 | Her destiny would have been marriage to her brother , then aged 9 . |
| 7 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 8 | And since for him the market implied commodity production , and value as a mediating form in social economic relations , the idea of ‘ market socialism ’ would have been anathema . |
| 9 | It would have been stop ! |
| 10 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 11 | If I had wanted to study anything academic , it would have been archaeology , history or possibly architecture . |
| 12 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper . |
| 14 | Refuge theory would predict that where forest now stands today , there would have been savanna and that the higher wetter country would have been the ‘ refugia ’ in glacial times . |
| 15 | I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn , I could feel it you know , squint through |
| 16 | Bay did thrash Connah 's Quay 7-0 in last season 's Welsh Cup , and also hammered Briton Ferry , and Bryn Jones agrees his side would have been title contenders . |
| 17 | Had it happened in Britain there would have been uproar if the judge had n't recommended a minimum of 20 years in jail for such a case . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 19 | To have added excommunication to his other problems would have been folly , and his reaction showed that , when speed was needed , he could act quickly . |
| 20 | Had he not taught music , his second choice would have been PE , says Mr Essex , who comes originally from Didcot . |
| 21 | One square 's separation would have been dagger range . |
| 22 | If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him . |
| 23 | There would have been merit in considering the possibility that more than one proposal might come forward in any given company in the group . |
| 24 | My favourite lessons would have been Art and Composition . |
| 25 | The cost of each accident was then assessed and a judgement made on whether it would have been cost effective to prevent it . |
| 26 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 27 | Her elder son , who had done a conservation course , would have been warden , her elder daughter — a very good journalist — would do the publicity , her younger daughter , an artist and photographer , would design the field centre and set up exhibitions , and her younger son , an excellent communicator of great charm , would show the schoolchildren round . |
| 28 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 29 | To have gone without a nightdress in our house would have been heresy . |
| 30 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |