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Sizar Posted 14 years ago
English in Russia

would once have been

Dear all,

I met one sentance on slovari.yandex.ru with a translation. Here it goes:

Shopkeepers would once have been pillars of the Tory establishment. — ????????? ?????-?? ???? ?????? ??????? ? ?????? ?????????????.

I wonder why there is "would once have been"? What kind this turn of speech is?
  

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??? ?????????? ???? ?????? ????, ?????????? ?? ????, ?? ????? ??????????? ????? ????? ??, ??? ???? ?? ???? ????????: "Shopkeepers were once pillars of the Tory establishment."

??????? ? ???, ??? ? ?????? "were once" ??????????????? ??????????? ???????? ? ?????-?? ?????? ? ???????, ? ?? ????? ??? "would once have been" - ????????????? ????????, ?.?. ???????????? ?? ???????
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