Example sentences of "[conj] would have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My word that would have been a spectacular goal . |
2 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
3 | She had never belonged to anything and would have been a hopeless soldier . |
4 | It follows that the continuing heavy costs of care at Hunstead Park would have gone on and would have been a proper claim against this defendant . |
5 | It means incidentally , ‘ bridge wooden shakey ’ and would have been a funny name for a station in the land of King George ! |