Example sentences of "would have [be] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 2 | In the past , the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event . |
| 3 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 4 | A month ago , the smart press echoed with I-told-you-so reminders that Mr Hurd , the classiest act in the government , would have been a better prime minister than Mr Major . |
| 5 | Certainly dinosaur bulkiness , dictated by biogeographical and ancestral factors , would have been a continuing dangerous handicap on a planet with Earth-like gravity . |
| 6 | ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’ |
| 7 | In other words , the original Sadducees would have been a devout dynastic priesthood closely associated with at least the principle of an expected Davidic Messiah . |