Example sentences of "[coord] would [verb] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had never belonged to anything and would have been a hopeless soldier . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It means incidentally , ‘ bridge wooden shakey ’ and would have been a funny name for a station in the land of King George ! |
| 5 | Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence . |