Example sentences of "it would have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 2 | Adding VAT to fuel and power is justified as a means of taxing pollution , but it would have been equally effective to remove VAT from insulation materials which , after all , reduce pollution . |
| 3 | As it happens , the bass part has been designed so that the result is relatively consonant and relaxed , but it would have been equally easy ( as we have shown above ) to make it contribute more dissonance and tension : |
| 4 | He could have developed that and it would have been tremendously useful to him . |
| 5 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 6 | It 's combining forces really ; with Cozy 's thing it would have been mostly instrumental , including Cozy 's ‘ Greatest Hits ’ , but with Tony involved we can legitimately do some Sabbath songs which he co-wrote , as we effectively have three quarters of the line-up . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the surviving harpsichord by Hitchcock has lost its stop knobs : it would have been most useful to compare them with the painting . |
| 8 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 9 | It would have been most unlikely . |
| 10 | It would have been even better had a Word for Windows style drag and drop edit facility been included with that , but , for the moment , you have to content yourself with good ol' cut and paste , I 'm afraid . |
| 11 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 12 | So they , they , you see , that that that is in in an instant where it would have been enormously beneficial to have something to prevent the cold , |
| 13 | Before Cowley could voice his astonished irritation at that complacent comment , Hogan hurried on , ‘ It would have been altogether different if this Doyle of yours had died , believe me . |
| 14 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 15 | Had England this season won a third successive Grand Slam under Will Carling , it would have been mighty difficult to go against his record . |
| 16 | IT would have been pretty hard , given the Government 's troubles , for Labour to have had a bad Conference . |
| 17 | Had there been no — and certainly no just-arrived audience — It would have been utterly lovely to have taken the phone and settled down for a chat , to be inspired and encouraged as always by the love you offer your friends and by your own zest for life physical and things spiritual . |
| 18 | It would have been rather nice if it had n't just been a joke . |
| 19 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 20 | When it reached the stage in the title year when it looked as though the scum might beat us to it , if they had have done , it would have been largely due to the difference between Whyte/Fairclough and Pallister/Bruce . |
| 21 | And you like them baggy anyway , you do n't get one that fits you er buy That 's why I said it would have been probably better to pay the extra twenty quid and bought the Italian style double- breasted |
| 22 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 23 | Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works . |
| 24 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 25 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 26 | How much of the liquor in this anthropoid coffin was body fluid will have to be left to the imagination ; suffice it to say that owing to the construction of such coffins it would have been practically impossible to have introduced much liquid preservatives . |
| 27 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 28 | But surely it would have been both noisy and dangerous ? |
| 29 | The rewriting of all but a very few of these definitions was deliberately excluded from the programme of the Supplement , as it would have been both impracticable and prohibitively expensive . |
| 30 | But , again , no one seems to have considered that as an option ; and if they had , it would have been highly unpopular and , if implemented , its effects slow and perhaps ultimately unsatisfactory . |