Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years .
2 All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way .
3 What I 'd suggest is a relaxing weekend in the country .
4 There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that .
5 If he had n't died of that heart attack , he 'd have been a mental wreck . ’
6 If he 'd been alive when Robert kicked up all that riot and rumpus , there 'd have been a different story , I can tell you . ’
7 And that would n't have occurred that weekend on the Ropewalk if there 'd have been a proper programme , of empty emptying gullies .
8 If Charlie had triggered it there 'd have been a big back-up of propaganda and so on .
9 ‘ He 'd have been an interesting man , ’ he said to Florence Ames .
10 Sunday trading , for example , is something that one would think was a national matter with the subsidiarity rule applying .
11 Er where would with er would 've been a front room that was another house .
12 Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out .
13 ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’
14 Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked .
15 What I would suggest is a straight transfer into … which has resisted the general trend downwards , and should soon be moving right up .
16 We noted that controlling for sex would have reduced the size of the original effect , because there would have been a spurious component stemming purely from the fact that more women are in low status jobs and more women go absent .
17 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 .
18 Indeed , some tattle of Cambridge life would have been a pleasurable relief .
19 ‘ It would have been a fascinating exercise to auction it on the free market and see how much it got , though ’ , said Maître Binoche .
20 Given the performance a truer reflection of the game would have been a 6–0 win to Leeds .
21 Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous .
22 Blossom would have been a suitable name for the large oilman who arrived in a huge lorry to deliver the central heating oil .
23 If she and Lowell had had a child it would have been a strange hybrid , perhaps difficult to love .
24 She had not specified , but somewhere around four thirty to five would have been a reasonable time to return .
25 Three times world champion Thorpe would have been a major attraction at the Lisburn meeting , but in his absence they have signed up world championship rivals Mervyn Anstie and Gared Smith for the Toyota trophy meeting which takes place at Larchfield Estate close to Legacurry , Lisburn .
26 The loss of the plant would have been a major blow to the local economy .
27 To have won either award would have been a major achievement ; to have won both Environmental and Export Awards in the same year is remarkable and gives us great satisfaction .
28 In the past there would have been a major famine ; now they have simply called on their own 30-million-ton reserve of wheat .
29 By then there would have been a major waste of resources .
30 Had the crowd not been prepared to accept the directions of the stewards at Carlisle Square and had they made an attempt to follow the original route , there would have been a major clash with the RUC and the loyalists and large-scale violence .
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