Example sentences of "that would have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ?
2 Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved .
3 That would have been a super piece of front play .
4 ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’
5 Yeah , that would have been a good one .
6 I thought that would have been a good night in the King 's Hall tonight .
7 That would have been a preposterous estimate .
8 That would have been a fascist kind of imperial erm state would n't it .
9 I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face .
10 That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’
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