Example sentences of "[vb infin] been a disaster " in BNC.
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| 1 | One incident , in the reactor at Greifswald , nearly caused a meltdown in 1976 , an accident that , occurring close to densely populated parts of Western and Central Europe , would have been a disaster of much greater magnitude than Chernobyl . |
| 2 | The appeasement myth was right in this respect : Halifax would have been a disaster for Britain . |
| 3 | Since the communists were widely seen as an anti-national party , free elections would have been a disaster . |
| 4 | A Kinnock government in this recession would have been a disaster . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're right , my darling , ’ Louise laughed , ‘ it would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 6 | It could have been a disaster . ’ |
| 7 | If he had , he would have been a disaster in the smoke-filled rooms but a darling with the tabloids and the public . |
| 8 | I mean that would have been a disaster I mean it 's only because I was upstairs and I thought oh I can smell boiling . |
| 9 | Or you may be like those who tell me they 've used what could have been a disaster to make their lives more what they wanted them to be . |
| 10 | ‘ On the other hand , if Christmas had been bad , it would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 11 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 12 | And it could have been a disaster . |
| 13 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |
| 14 | The Friends ' new Patron says that for a modern town like Swindon , that would have been a disaster . |
| 15 | I think it would have been a disaster and a recipe for disaster because practically if you know what the situation is in the Moat Centre and the Highfields youth and community centre then people would have never resisted to that change . |