Example sentences of "would have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years . |
| 2 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 3 | If he had n't died of that heart attack , he 'd have been a mental wreck . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd have been a lovely ! |
| 5 | If he 'd been alive when Robert kicked up all that riot and rumpus , there 'd have been a different story , I can tell you . ’ |
| 6 | And that would n't have occurred that weekend on the Ropewalk if there 'd have been a proper programme , of empty emptying gullies . |
| 7 | If Charlie had triggered it there 'd have been a big back-up of propaganda and so on . |
| 8 | Er where would with er would 've been a front room that was another house . |
| 9 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
| 10 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
| 11 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 12 | We noted that controlling for sex would have reduced the size of the original effect , because there would have been a spurious component stemming purely from the fact that more women are in low status jobs and more women go absent . |
| 13 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 14 | From what we know of him , Simon Peter would have been a typical ‘ adherent of the message ’ . |
| 15 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 16 | Indeed , some tattle of Cambridge life would have been a pleasurable relief . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have been a fascinating exercise to auction it on the free market and see how much it got , though ’ , said Maître Binoche . |
| 18 | Given the performance a truer reflection of the game would have been a 6–0 win to Leeds . |
| 19 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 20 | Blossom would have been a suitable name for the large oilman who arrived in a huge lorry to deliver the central heating oil . |
| 21 | If she and Lowell had had a child it would have been a strange hybrid , perhaps difficult to love . |
| 22 | She had not specified , but somewhere around four thirty to five would have been a reasonable time to return . |
| 23 | Had the crowd not been prepared to accept the directions of the stewards at Carlisle Square and had they made an attempt to follow the original route , there would have been a major clash with the RUC and the loyalists and large-scale violence . |
| 24 | By then there would have been a major waste of resources . |
| 25 | In the past , the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event . |
| 26 | In the past there would have been a major famine ; now they have simply called on their own 30-million-ton reserve of wheat . |
| 27 | Three times world champion Thorpe would have been a major attraction at the Lisburn meeting , but in his absence they have signed up world championship rivals Mervyn Anstie and Gared Smith for the Toyota trophy meeting which takes place at Larchfield Estate close to Legacurry , Lisburn . |
| 28 | To have won either award would have been a major achievement ; to have won both Environmental and Export Awards in the same year is remarkable and gives us great satisfaction . |
| 29 | The loss of the plant would have been a major blow to the local economy . |
| 30 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |