Example sentences of "would [prep] now [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 2 | Not , miraculously , through any major blood vessels , or I would by now have bled internally to death . |
| 3 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 4 | The forecasts that every British family would by now have access to a car ( the thinking behind the design of Milton Keynes and other new towns ) were plainly wrong . |
| 5 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 6 | ‘ If this complex had not been bombed by the Zionists in 1981 , then we would by now have the capability for the production of nuclear warheads . |
| 7 | He would by now have left the Bishop , would be crossing the Close to find his car , would know what lay ahead for them both . |
| 8 | Otherwise , it would by now have degenerated into a state of complete disorder , in which everything would be at the same temperature . |
| 9 | He inflicted the first wound to Taylor 's hopes by conceding a penalty equaliser against the Dutch at Wembley and was also criticised for goals by Poland and Norway which threw away the points that would by now have left qualification a formality . |