Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] would have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 2 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 3 | Using the simple principle that the bigger the crowd the better the revenue , either Hong Kong or Japan would have been better suited to host the event . |
| 4 | Biggs was awarded the Royal Humane Society 's Bronze Medal the day before he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment on the charges of stealing bicycles , the judge saying that sentence would have been more severe but for his brave deed . |
| 5 | But in visiting units who would shortly be involved in the repatriation of the Cossacks , and in discussions with Gen Keightley and his staff , we believe that McCreery would have been fully briefed on the plans for the Cossack repatriation operation which had been issued by 5 Corps to all divisional commands the previous day , 24 May [ KP 245 ] . |
| 6 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 7 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 8 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 9 | Neither Boswell nor Johnson would have been so damningly ungracious as to suggest ( as other Scottish cities accused ) , that in the interests of free drink Aberdeen 's city fathers were promiscuous with their honours . |
| 10 | Initially , I think that girls would have been more afraid and bewildered when first landing on the island and would have accepted their situation less easily than the boys as girls are usually more attached to their backgrounds and less willing for change ( of this sort ) than boys . |
| 11 | It is likely that Pak would have been more amenable to the Russians than Kim but Kim was the tougher of the two and had the opportunities , which he fully exploited . |
| 12 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 13 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 14 | Her mixture of alarm and bafflement would have been utterly convincing , had Harry not already passed beyond the reach of any appeal she might care to make . |
| 15 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 16 | The plan , whatever it was , must have been discussed well in advance of the tour 's arrival in Oxford , but a few last-minute recapitulations and reassurances would have been almost inevitable . |
| 17 | If only Esther had shown her daughter the love she craved , Beth would have returned that love , and things would have been so very different . |
| 18 | Surely with one of these at fullback both England and Australia would have been far stronger units . |
| 19 | And Beveridge would have been perfectly happy with that question . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’ |
| 21 | Illegitimate children were by no means unusual in those days and Darrel would have been rather pleased with the embarrassment caused either of his old antagonists . |
| 22 | The love-affairs of kings and queens would have been far more interesting . ’ |
| 23 | If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him . |
| 24 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 25 | So far so inconsequential , but Heather would have been quite capable of deducing as much herself . |
| 26 | But things would have been much the same . |
| 27 | And just like Windsor , the Hofburg Palace was uninsured because premiums would have been so high . |
| 28 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |