Example sentences of "would have be very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know if we were n't actually allowed to go in there , ’ says Bernard , ‘ but it was an officers ’ domain and I do n't think we 'd have been very welcome going in there as lower ranks . |
| 3 | He 'd have been very angry if he 'd come back and found the police looking for him . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd have been very happy playing an old lady of ninety at the age of fifteen . |
| 5 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 6 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 7 | Equally , the new ideas and advice offered by the Marie Stopes clinics and by the Family Planning Association , which was established in 1930 and had sixty-six clinics by 1939 , would have been very limited . |
| 8 | Many giant dinosaurs , therefore , would have been very successful in battle , having an important bearing on natural selection . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure your method would have been very successful too , ’ she retorted scathingly . |
| 10 | So Wimbledon would have been very fortunate to have escaped without some damage . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 13 | I hardly ever browse through the jazz section in a record shop ( I have usually been scalped in the classical section , in any case ) , and I would have been very sorry to miss this cracker of a CD . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have been very sorry to lose it . ’ |
| 15 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 16 | Supplementing the corpus with more recordings of naturally occurring speech would have been very time-consuming , so a questionnaire was designed in order to investigate ( amongst other things ) the possibility of such a constraint operating . |
| 17 | Bill would have been very proud of that moment . ’ |
| 18 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 19 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | It would have been in an excitable state and therefore would have been very dangerous . |
| 22 | It would have been very dangerous if he had not . ’ |
| 23 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 24 | There was a quiet sincerity in his voice that would have been very convincing . |
| 25 | To be honest , that would have been very easy to do , because in terms of production they 're very simple records . ’ |
| 26 | It would have been very easy for me to stay there for the rest of my life . |
| 27 | There was one point during my test when I was driving along and erm the I was creeping forward in a stream of traffic and the person in front of me had crossed the solid white line at some traffic lights and the lights changed and it would have been very easy to follow his lights and just carry on |
| 28 | The decorations would have been very simple and little of the panelling survives . |
| 29 | If the others had realized just how totally in charge he was I think they would have been very jittery . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have been very helpful had we known earlier . |