Example sentences of "a [noun] would have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a story would have been heavily damaging to the electoral prospects of the Labour Party as it was pledged to end such speculation . |
| 2 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 3 | JUST a year ago , a journalist would have been as welcome at the opening meet of Prince Charles 's favourite hunt as Saddam Hussein at a Royal garden party . |
| 4 | Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members . |
| 5 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 6 | The phenomenon is especially common in theft when a charge would have been more appropriately brought under s.15 , obtaining property by deception . |
| 7 | Going into another troupe after being a Tiller would have been too much of a comedown . |
| 8 | With a 5% exclusion clause only one of these parties would have been granted representation , and the complex process of forming a government would have been much less painful . |
| 9 | Such a situation would have been very common then , and is increasingly common now . |
| 10 | I 'm glad you drew your coin , Mr Dance , as a rubbing would have been very difficult to make out . |
| 11 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 12 | Actually to go and take pictures of a dockyard would have been very difficult . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I would have thought a family would have been only too glad to get an unmarried daughter off its hands . ’ |