Example sentences of "[noun] would have do [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 2 | Any county wicket-keeper would have done the job — but Stewart , unbelievably , completely missed the bails . |
| 3 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 4 | Amis 's admiring study of Fleming , The James Bond Dossier ( 1965 ) , acknowledged much of all that with a characteristic bluntness , and in ‘ a spiteful tangent ’ or side-swipe against Eliot and Modernism he remarked that ‘ a few mentions of ( say ) Nestlé 's condensed milk , Woodbines , Spinks 's plum-and-apple jam and Scotch-and-Apollinaris would have done The Waste Land a world of good ’ , the lack of a socio-temporal context having left Eliot 's poem ‘ just one more of the featureless , flavourless lumps of cultural lumber it purports to be superior to ’ . |
| 5 | But actually any three anchor points on the plane would have done the trick just as well , and would have given identical results . |
| 6 | Gascoigne , appearing riled by some of the rough-and-tumble of Tranmere 's enthusiasm , teased and toyed with their defence , beating one , two and three defenders , only to fall foul of three more when a simple pass would have done the business . |
| 7 | A professional would have done the job properly . |