Example sentences of "[noun] would have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of the drag reduction kit modifications on the aircraft 's pre- and post-stall behaviour could not be documented precisely but it is unlikely that their effect on the stall speed and characteristics would have been significant . |
| 2 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 3 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 4 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 5 | For example , the need for some modifications became apparent ; the rephrasing of some questions and a refocusing of emphasis towards texts used in Secondary schools would have been helpful . |
| 6 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 7 | Some tabulation would have been useful . |
| 8 | It would have been better placed a couple of weeks later ; at least the readers would have been familiar with the mood and pace of the album . |
| 9 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 10 | If the boy had growled over his shoulder : ‘ Stand out of my light ! ’ the illusion would have been complete . |
| 11 | Had forty more parents voted , the vote would have been valid . |
| 12 | Had the limit not been stated , the rent would have been unascertainable , and the stamp duty would have been £2 . |
| 13 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 14 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 15 | The immediate costs to the United States would have been political , the main gainers being the major gold producers — South Africa and the USSR and those who had previously speculated against the dollar by demanding gold . |
| 16 | Eleanor would have been broad-minded enough to laugh at the whole tale . |
| 17 | Lady Eleanor would have been comfortable but securely kept , and I would have been happy . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Most others in the chemical industry would have been delighted to have them . ’ |
| 19 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 20 | This result would have been different during the O'Keeffe frenzy of the mid-Eighties , when the painting would have sold , and probably for more . |
| 21 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 22 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 23 | ‘ Defeat would have been catastrophic to morale . ’ |
| 24 | If the proposals which I put forward on behalf of the Conservative group had been adopted , £15,000 not £1,500 would have been available for practical environmental issues this year . |
| 25 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 26 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 27 | At least three of these cars would have been useful to Leeds , when the remainder were sold to them , if only as a source of spare parts . |
| 28 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 29 | It 's a truck the Beverley Hillbillies would have been proud of . |
| 30 | Scott J said that the distinction lay in whether the parties would have been prepared to allow the matter to be decided on the basis of views which had not been formulated . |