Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 2 | Woodcuts would have been an interesting addition to Leapor 's second volume , and in themselves would serve as evidence on how she was understood by her contemporaries . |
| 3 | ‘ En souvenir de ’ ( ‘ in memory of ’ ) might seem to imply that Jenny and Mme Vidal were dead , but a collection of jolly harpsichord pieces would have been an odd way to memorialize them . |
| 4 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 5 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |
| 6 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 7 | In other words , the original Sadducees would have been a devout dynastic priesthood closely associated with at least the principle of an expected Davidic Messiah . |
| 8 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 9 | If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall . |
| 10 | After so many forced cancellations over the years , it was a rare joy to welcome this vigorous , athletic figure back to conduct the LPO in what with most conductors would have been a run-of-the-mill Festival Hall programme , but which with Tennstedt in charge became an exhilarating drive . |
| 11 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |
| 12 | If the object is to encourage mothers to stay at home , the use of child benefits would have been a superior policy . |
| 13 | In short , they possess qualities that some myopic adults would argue were the unique contribution of ‘ Literature ’ . |
| 14 | Under proportional representation — the rule of all other EC member states — the British Greens would have been the largest national group in the Strasbourg Green firmament , where the number of those who regarded themselves as in some way Green had risen from 11 to 43 . |
| 15 | In the circumstances victory for the hosts would have been a fitting reward for their extraordinary dedication to the game and its very traditional amateur roots . |
| 16 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |