Example sentences of "would have be [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 2 | Without actually opening it , which would have been to examine the beast physiologically , Hull inferred numerous relationships between levels of motivation ( drive ) and the extent of learning ( habit strength ) that rendered a response more or less probable . |
| 3 | His normal reaction would have been to swing the car in a U-turn to return and tackle the driver of the tractor . |
| 4 | If she wanted us to blame Burrows by faking an entry point , surely the simplest thing would have been to leave the window open ? |
| 5 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 6 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 7 | The sensible response would have been to increase the number of officers , not to cut them . |
| 8 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 9 | To have remained in the contest under these circumstances would have been to play the role of a " spoiler " said Tsongas , and , thereby , to " become the agent of the re-election of George Bush " . |
| 10 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 11 | Even to have imagined a destination would have been to raise the question , why this place rather than that ? |
| 12 | The only possible resolution of the difficulty would have been to obtain the consent of both Mr. Brant and the plaintiff to reveal Mr. Perot 's interest to the other . |
| 13 | Will he understand that had he wished , as his statement claimed , to remain within the law , his proper course would have been to accept the court 's ruling and then appeal , not to flout the court 's judgment ? |
| 14 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |
| 15 | To have given full details at that earlier point would have been to remove the sting from the report to Eli , and spoil its shock . |
| 16 | If he 'd come without a lighter or matches , surely the obvious thing would have been to remove the box from the chained brass holder attached to the heater . |
| 17 | To say more would have been to overstate the case , but as a first preview it got by . |
| 18 | But , having raised expectations , the regime then stopped moving towards the logical sequel , which would have been to offer the electorate an opportunity to replace its present leadership with a new one . |
| 19 | Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used . |
| 20 | A more likely alternative would have been to change the tax rate , which raises disposable income by , initially inducing expenditure rises determined by the multiplier applied to that term ; i.e. so that |