Example sentences of "would have been [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd have been stuck in some noisy complex in Pollensa and then had to drive back to Palma to do his share of the work . |
| 2 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 3 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 4 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |
| 5 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 6 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 7 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 8 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Kraal finally , ‘ it would have been better after all . ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance . |
| 11 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 12 | Batty would have been useful in this match … not only in the playing sense , but we had lots of throw ins level with their box , Batty would have got these into a danger area … |
| 13 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 14 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 15 | And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life . |
| 16 | However , the position would have been different if the nodes had been defective and caused damage or injury to the buyer : the seller would then have been open to a claim in tort , or perhaps under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , but would have been unprotected by any exclusion , limitation or indemnity clauses . |
| 17 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 18 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 19 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 20 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 21 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 22 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 23 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 24 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 25 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
| 26 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 27 | If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good . |
| 28 | The Professor 's own American sign language would have been unintelligible to those present . |
| 29 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
| 30 | RECONNAISSANCE was of paramount importance in the Pacific War and the Yokosuka R2Y1 Keiun ( Beautiful Cloud ) would have been superb in this role had it entered service . |