Example sentences of "would have [been] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 2 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 3 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 4 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 5 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 6 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 7 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 8 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 9 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 10 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 11 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 12 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 13 | To have assumed otherwise would have been to raise a number of awkward questions . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |
| 15 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 16 | How much more eager those warriors would have been to contact a foe face to face . |
| 17 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |
| 18 | The immediate and natural recourse of a woman set on a highly militant search after holiness , an escape from marriage and its social duties and a private life , would have been to enter a convent . |
| 19 | Anyone who did this last time would have been guaranteed a win . |
| 20 | Even without his son , Leopold Mozart ( 1719–1787 ) ( 1 ) would have been guaranteed a place in the history books . |