Example sentences of "it would have been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've been a bit dodgy at Wellford Road let alone London Road . |
| 2 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 3 | ‘ Mary Joe Fernandez and I got hooked up though , and it would have been a fairy book finish if we could have won it . |
| 4 | It would have been a back-of-the-head shot . |
| 5 | It would have been a pity to break those very handsome seals , I 'm glad I held my hand . ’ |
| 6 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately . |
| 8 | Frankly , it would have been a mercy killing . |
| 9 | It would have been a nightmare , it would have been horrendous . |
| 10 | It would have been a way of criticising his regime which it was difficult to counter directly , and , in the short term perhaps most troublesome of all , it was possibly also a source of popular disorder . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been a year . |
| 12 | If this had been so , however , it would have been a weakness : the strength of our arguments on social network ( and other social aspects of the research ) depends precisely on the fact that these socially-based criteria are not the motivating factors for our selection of linguistic variables . |
| 13 | ‘ If my plan had worked , it would have been a masterstroke . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been a privilege to have you as a student … ah , but your French is already of so excellent a quality … and you are occupied with your researches . |
| 15 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I look at it logically , it would have been a bit selfish for me to have had a child . |
| 17 | It would have been a bit of excitement . |
| 18 | But it would have been a disincentive on the rich . |
| 19 | It would have been a girl . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , laughing also , ‘ it would have been a must curious alternative . ’ |
| 21 | As a result of the improved revaluation changes , explained earlier , this option could be considerably more attractive than it would have been a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | I thought you 'd at least ask the reasons … it would have been a chance to admit where things went wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have been a chance in a million but maybe next time we will be lucky . ’ |
| 24 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |
| 25 | He even ran up some fake City of Westminster chestnut licences and it would have been a laugh but he tried to charge for them . |
| 26 | If one of them took it it would have been a goal for certain . |
| 27 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 28 | I mean it would have been a hell of a lot of |
| 29 | Well it would have been a hell of a lot of money . |
| 30 | Usually , no doubt , the audience shared the unstated assumptions , but even if they did not , it would have been a solecism to answer the question . |