Example sentences of "[conj] he would have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 2 | He gasped with delight at the sight that met his tired eyes rows and rows of fresh fruit and vegetables that he would have been proud to sell . |
| 3 | As we can be sure that Howard would have approved of the constructive use of prisoners ' time and energy and training in work habits , so we can probably also assume that he would have been disappointed in and disapproving of the latest trend . |
| 4 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
| 6 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 7 | Two weeks ago Hoomey knew that he would have been terrified putting any part of his anatomy within an inch of Bones 's long , grooved teeth , but habit had given him confidence . |
| 8 | His sabre , unfortunately , was on the other side of the sepoy ( it was a good thing he had not noticed it because it was so sharp that he would have been able to slice Fleury in two without even pressing ) . |
| 9 | Because that would mean that he would have been able to hold on to his job . |
| 10 | It was several months before anything significant happened in Edward 's life — by which time he was so sick of the stagnant war that he would have been prepared to be parachuted into the heart of Germany wearing a kilt . |
| 11 | If the director had been gay my guess is that he 'd have been stereotyped . ’ |
| 12 | If he thought instant bankruptcy would result from such disclosures , he must be no less earnest to become a bankrupt for the just advantage of his creditors than he would have been resolute not to fail by collusion for the purpose of defrauding them . |
| 13 | alderman Hussey was mayor of the City in 1758 and he would have been pleased that his idea of bringing a clean water supply to St. Edmund 's and St. Martin 's Parishes was still quite useful almost 170 years later . |
| 14 | The prosecution alleges that by killing his wife , Green would have benefited by her £120,000 insurance policies , his £80,000 mortgage would have been paid off and he would have been free to pursue Miss Warburton . |
| 15 | Duncan looked at the people passing by , wondering if he would have been one of them had Grandfather Ilya Denknetzeyan decided not leave Russia . |
| 16 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 17 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 18 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 19 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 20 | It 's a matter for conjecture whether he would have been willing to accept a real theatre wordsmith had one been available . |
| 21 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 22 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |