Example sentences of "this would have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 2 | He has a deep religious conviction , which tends towards the ecumenical , and this would have been a perfect expression of his beliefs and also a personal and rewarding spiritual experience . |
| 3 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 4 | A detective at the scene said : ‘ This would have been a spectacular coup for the IRA . |
| 5 | This would have been a good-sized brood ( numerically speaking ) for a 4″ ‘ normal ’ Mbuna female . |
| 6 | In other circumstances , this would have been a pleasant drive . |
| 7 | This would have been a statutory reversal of Kendall as well as rendering s14(3) , which is concerned with fitness for a particular purpose , redundant . |
| 8 | She knew that where once this would have been a natural remedy for such an upset , she was unsure now how she would respond . |
| 9 | If true , this would have been an amazing source of energy . |
| 10 | Of course it was conceivable that the assailant had climbed the yard wall but , without a ladder of some sort , this would have been an acrobatic feat . |
| 11 | The Church of England Newspaper said , unkindly , that the weakest part of the Lambeth Conference of 1958 was its report on the Bible ; and that this would have been an excellent report for a Lambeth Conference of 1858 not 1958 . |