Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result would have been a Californian bank second in size only to New York 's Citicorp . |
| 2 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 3 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 4 | There , the influence of the honorary senior medical staff was considerable , and the presence of a medical superintendent would have been an unwelcome irritant . |
| 5 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 6 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 7 | He told me he knew that Ken would have been an impossible person to live with . |
| 8 | The axe was originally a northern European weapon , and a typical design during the time of Barbarossa would have been a simple axe blade balanced by a spike on its reverse . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , come , Sir Edmund , he could have been a Cardinal of Rome and his fate would have been the same . |
| 10 | The old lady would have been a lissome girl , like the girls now coming through the main entrance of the boma , carrying large plastic containers of water on their heads , keeping them in place by a casual touch of the hand . |
| 11 | Hall would have been the resident manager . |
| 12 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 13 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 14 | Those workings westerly of Red Dell Beck would have been the White or New Work and those oil the east of the beck the Low Work . |
| 15 | If , indeed , production was under imperial control , then Rochester would have been the ideal centre for the administration . |
| 16 | No doubt the return would have been a high one and I have to take account of that . ’ |
| 17 | Woodcuts would have been an interesting addition to Leapor 's second volume , and in themselves would serve as evidence on how she was understood by her contemporaries . |
| 18 | ‘ En souvenir de ’ ( ‘ in memory of ’ ) might seem to imply that Jenny and Mme Vidal were dead , but a collection of jolly harpsichord pieces would have been an odd way to memorialize them . |
| 19 | For any kind of prolonged activity , warm-bloodedness would have been a distinct advantage . |
| 20 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 21 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 22 | The preceding section ( as Tolkien would have been the first to declare ) probably falls into the perennial academic vice of neatness , over-valuing system and ‘ invention ’ instead of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 23 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Inevitably the industry came under some pressure from the Government to control this burgeoning demand from domestic consumers , without which the capacity crisis would have been a good deal less serious . |
| 25 | Town 's first Easter delight came on saturday against Luton at the County Ground … they were given a tough time in this one … a draw would have been a good result … a fair one too … but thanks to Paul Bodin the full-back with a golden boot they went and snatched a win … |
| 26 | Forest , who knocked Spurs out of the Coca-Cola Cup , have not lost at White Hart Lane for seven years and perhaps a draw would have been a fair result . |
| 27 | A draw would have been a fairer outcome . |
| 28 | A draw would have been a fairer result . |
| 29 | A draw would have been no more than Wolves deserved , but Kiwomya , Ipswich 's most impressive forward , was not finished . |
| 30 | Without dégorgement and Clicquot 's remuage , the Champagne process would have been no different from the medieval ‘ rural method ’ utilised elsewhere . |