Example sentences of "[adj] would have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 2 | He has a deep religious conviction , which tends towards the ecumenical , and this would have been a perfect expression of his beliefs and also a personal and rewarding spiritual experience . |
| 3 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 4 | A detective at the scene said : ‘ This would have been a spectacular coup for the IRA . |
| 5 | This would have been a good-sized brood ( numerically speaking ) for a 4″ ‘ normal ’ Mbuna female . |
| 6 | In other circumstances , this would have been a pleasant drive . |
| 7 | This would have been a statutory reversal of Kendall as well as rendering s14(3) , which is concerned with fitness for a particular purpose , redundant . |
| 8 | She knew that where once this would have been a natural remedy for such an upset , she was unsure now how she would respond . |
| 9 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 10 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 11 | That would have been a super piece of front play . |
| 12 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , that would have been a good one . |
| 14 | I thought that would have been a good night in the King 's Hall tonight . |
| 15 | That would have been a preposterous estimate . |
| 16 | That would have been a fascist kind of imperial erm state would n't it . |
| 17 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 18 | That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’ |
| 19 | She had not specified , but somewhere around four thirty to five would have been a reasonable time to return . |
| 20 | He thought two two would have been a fairer reflection of the play . |