Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the object is to encourage mothers to stay at home , the use of child benefits would have been a superior policy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |