Example sentences of "[pron] would have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been a progressive teacher 's ideal pupil . |
| 2 | ‘ Kenneth and I would have been a marvellous companionship , but … ’ |
| 3 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 4 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 5 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 6 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 7 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
| 8 | Well I 'd like to speak about the gallery I like to speak for myself and er just the visual arts and er the gallery when it first started was a gallery very much appreciated by appreciated by the Eastern Region er they saw it as potential a very significant gallery in the whole region which would have been a marvellous thing for Harlow to have . |
| 9 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 10 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 11 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Even though she would have been a rich woman had she married him ? ’ |
| 13 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 14 | She would have been a young lass of twelve as JTR strode his way Arosward . |
| 15 | She would have been a talkative woman if she could . |
| 16 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 17 | ‘ ( 1 ) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the Court of Appeal may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice … ( b ) order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the court , whether or not he was called in those proceedings ; and ( c ) subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , receive the evidence , if tendered , of any witness . |
| 18 | In medieval times you would have been a Sanguine , Melancholy , Choleric or Phlegmatic type . |
| 19 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 20 | ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’ |
| 21 | Jailing Storrie for seven years , Lord Coulsfield said : ‘ The robbery by itself would have been a serious matter but what followed in the shape of the sexual assault was a quite extraordinary and vicious episode . ’ |
| 22 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 23 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 24 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 25 | There would have been a terrific scandal if there 'd been anyone present to have a scandal around . |
| 26 | We noted that controlling for sex would have reduced the size of the original effect , because there would have been a spurious component stemming purely from the fact that more women are in low status jobs and more women go absent . |
| 27 | There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor . |
| 28 | It is easy to see that there would have been a continuous trajectory of step-by-step improvement , all the way . |
| 29 | There would have been a grateful kiss , kisses , perhaps . |
| 30 | Had his sons ruled , they say there would have been a golden age . ’ |