Example sentences of "would have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 32 | But , had the changes introduced by the Courts Act 1971 not been in place , there would have been a real possibility that the old system would have collapsed under the strain . |
| 33 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 34 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 35 | It would have been a casual thing and not with anyone who was camp , like him . |
| 36 | The shortage of high-grade timbers for aircraft and boat-building would have been a serious matter during the War if all these woods had not been ‘ upgraded ’ by lamination with perfectly satisfactory results . |
| 37 | There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor . |
| 38 | A few of them would have been a serious giveaway in any frontier search , but these she 'd covered over with postcard views bought from the Europiskaya Hotel . |
| 39 | Jailing Storrie for seven years , Lord Coulsfield said : ‘ The robbery by itself would have been a serious matter but what followed in the shape of the sexual assault was a quite extraordinary and vicious episode . ’ |
| 40 | If the team had stopped , the effort would have been a total loss — confirming , in a circular way , the critics . |
| 41 | ‘ Even though she would have been a rich woman had she married him ? ’ |
| 42 | I very much resented them , because they drew my mother to what would have been a private retreat for me . |
| 43 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 44 | With an effort she walked across the room to Jerry , who had so often asked her for a date and who , given any encouragement , would have been a frequent visitor to Blue Ash Farm . |
| 45 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 46 | ‘ It would have been a prize-winning shot and all I did was stand here like a fool . |
| 47 | ‘ I never wanted to leave Wigan — it would have been a downward step — but at the same time it had to be right for me . |
| 48 | It would have been a pointless duplication for the authors of the environmental statement to have consulted separately . |
| 49 | That would have been a super piece of front play . |
| 50 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 51 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 52 | She had never belonged to anything and would have been a hopeless soldier . |
| 53 | She would have been a young lass of twelve as JTR strode his way Arosward . |
| 54 | The old lady would have been a lissome girl , like the girls now coming through the main entrance of the boma , carrying large plastic containers of water on their heads , keeping them in place by a casual touch of the hand . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | For a murderer in a hurry , and this murderer had been in a hurry , it would have been a tedious and uncertain way to get a light . |
| 57 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 58 | There would have been a terrific scandal if there 'd been anyone present to have a scandal around . |
| 59 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 60 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |