Example sentences of "would have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 2 | Erm again it 's a question of time I 'm sure they would have been probably reasonably er adequate . |
| 3 | erm I recall that would have been probably nineteen eighty nine |
| 4 | And you like them baggy anyway , you do n't get one that fits you er buy That 's why I said it would have been probably better to pay the extra twenty quid and bought the Italian style double- breasted |
| 5 | Erm , just a short note , if you see the big lot of over there , and er , I think it would have been probably easier trying to describing it . |
| 6 | If we were going to cave in it would have been today . |
| 7 | What an attraction it would have been today . |
| 8 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 9 | Surely , if Handel 's harpsichord truly was given to George III , this would have been exactly the place to find it . |
| 10 | ’ That would have been exactly analogous to Hughes . |
| 11 | But it would have been exactly the same problem simple harmonic motion |
| 12 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 13 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 14 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 15 | He would have been well acquainted with the Northumberland gardens at Sion House by the Thames ( originally laid out by the Duke of Somerset in the sixteenth century ) and supported an application by William Forsyth , one of his most promising pupils at Chelsea , for the appointment as head gardener there . |
| 16 | And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders . |
| 17 | They were sturdy beggars , Hugh told them , a sort of people rarely found in the forest , vermin whom the verderers would have been well able to control without an expedition had it not been for the outlaws . |
| 18 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |
| 19 | ‘ If someone had said we would get a draw here , we would have been well happy . |
| 20 | Probably Anselm would have been well advised to comply . |
| 21 | Whatever his sins it is clear that a man subject to such fits of remorse would have been well aware that a crusade was a religious act as well as a great military adventure . |
| 22 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 23 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 24 | As a member and officer of the council of the Carvetii , he would have been well acquainted with Carlisle . |
| 25 | He would have been well advised not to drag the name of my hon. and learned Friend through the courts and an undiscriminating press . |
| 26 | He would have been well advised not to compel — because he did compel — his own lawyers to regard what he said about my hon. and learned Friend as part of his case . |
| 27 | They tried in vain to get the men transferred to a German Prisoner of War camp , where they would have been well treated . |
| 28 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 29 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 30 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |