Example sentences of "he would have [been] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 2 | Tukalo — ‘ he would have been a hero , ’ noted Rutherford sympathetically — did not enjoy such fortune and was engulfed by the visitors ' defence who pirated possession to clear . |
| 3 | Without the NHS he would have been a cripple . |
| 4 | This was just as well , because as a native he would have been a bit hard to take . |
| 5 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 6 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 7 | The whole operation was performed with such straightforward openness that I believe , had he observed my slight embarrassment — which stemmed chiefly from the unexpectedness of the action — he would have been a trifle put out . |
| 8 | If he had , he would have been a disaster in the smoke-filled rooms but a darling with the tabloids and the public . |
| 9 | John-William , who knew that he would have been a Chartist himself had he remained a poor man , felt sorry about that death . |
| 10 | With regular top-level practice he would have been a world beater ’ . |