Example sentences of "[noun prp] would have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows , dear Kataya would have been so proud of you . ’ |
| 2 | And since she could not say , " About horrid Ben Braithwaite for wasting two years of Linnet 's youth and having his dreary wedding on a day when Gemma would have been better off staying in bed , " she chirruped brightly , " Everything , darlings — because this is what I want us to do . |
| 3 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 4 | Heather would have been as disinclined to confide in Mossop as he was himself . |
| 5 | So far so inconsequential , but Heather would have been quite capable of deducing as much herself . |
| 6 | And had Andy Thompson scored with a penalty after he 'd been fouled by Simon Sturridge , Turner would have been even more comfortable . |
| 7 | To quote again : ‘ Nigel would have been so proud of you . ’ |
| 8 | Without the pioneering treatment , Jonathon would have been as tall as youngsters half his age . |
| 9 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 10 | Mr. Beck would have been extremely well advised to plead guilty . |
| 11 | The dismissal of Haig would have been much more serious , but with Law 's advice Lloyd George did not take the risk . |
| 12 | ‘ If the situation had been reversed , I doubt Simon would have been so generous , ’ she said ruefully . |
| 13 | But in visiting units who would shortly be involved in the repatriation of the Cossacks , and in discussions with Gen Keightley and his staff , we believe that McCreery would have been fully briefed on the plans for the Cossack repatriation operation which had been issued by 5 Corps to all divisional commands the previous day , 24 May [ KP 245 ] . |
| 14 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 15 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 16 | It took Daphne several attempts to explain what ‘ riding to hounds ’ actually meant , though she had to admit that even Eliza Doolittle would have been hard pushed to understand fully why they bothered with the exercise in the first place . |
| 17 | This reference of Elijah would have been fully understood by Jewish readers and would also account for the crowd response at the end of the story : |
| 18 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 19 | ‘ At least Arthur would have been there , ’ said her husband . |
| 20 | With the means then available , a German breakthrough to the flat open country around Chalons-sur-Marne would have been virtually impossible . |
| 21 | I thought Rita would have been here wi I was surprised to do it . |
| 22 | If Jesus were the royal Messiah and John the priestly one , the baptism in the Jordan would have been all the more significant — the priestly Messiah conferring official status on his royal counterpart , who also , by the manifest workings of a divine plan , happened to be his close kin . |
| 23 | So Wimbledon would have been very fortunate to have escaped without some damage . ’ |
| 24 | For Goodman , Haynes would have been just the kind of dynamic figure beloved of the Labour Government during its expansive tea-with-the-Beatles phase . |
| 25 | And Beveridge would have been perfectly happy with that question . |
| 26 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 27 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 28 | Surely with one of these at fullback both England and Australia would have been far stronger units . |
| 29 | Emily would have been too strong for me . |
| 30 | Neither Boswell nor Johnson would have been so damningly ungracious as to suggest ( as other Scottish cities accused ) , that in the interests of free drink Aberdeen 's city fathers were promiscuous with their honours . |