Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 2 | Those workings westerly of Red Dell Beck would have been the White or New Work and those oil the east of the beck the Low Work . |
| 3 | If , indeed , production was under imperial control , then Rochester would have been the ideal centre for the administration . |
| 4 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 5 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 6 | The preceding section ( as Tolkien would have been the first to declare ) probably falls into the perennial academic vice of neatness , over-valuing system and ‘ invention ’ instead of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 7 | As a boy Lancaster would have been the natural victim of bullies — punched , thumped and insulted . |
| 8 | Shares were expected to plummet , and with Aerospace ripe for takeover , Rover would have been the first to be sold off . |
| 9 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 10 | Ovid and Seneca would have been the favourite Classical authors , and the children would study also reading and writing ( in English ) and arithmetic . |