Example sentences of "would have [been] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have been a mark for all the wise guys without me to look out for him . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have been a martyr , would n't I ? |
| 3 | He 'd have been a mouthful . |
| 4 | With the cash to match my pretensions I 'd have been a menace for our Dennis . |
| 5 | He was only about Nigel 's age , which meant that he 'd have been a toddler then . |
| 6 | If it had n't of been for the war I 'd have been a model ! |
| 7 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 8 | I 'd have been a lot more worried if I 'd known how much it was going to be … |
| 9 | Not a word of this before , not a hint ; surely there 'd have been a hint , a nod , a wink ? |
| 10 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 11 | BP and its partners , who have been licensed by the Government to drill for oil in the area , have consulted closely with the Trust and have ruled out the easiest and cheapest development option , which would have been a ten-acre onshore site at Studland . |
| 12 | Tukalo — ‘ he would have been a hero , ’ noted Rutherford sympathetically — did not enjoy such fortune and was engulfed by the visitors ' defence who pirated possession to clear . |
| 13 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 14 | It would have been a pity to break those very handsome seals , I 'm glad I held my hand . ’ |
| 15 | Sails would have been a hindrance . |
| 16 | And a legitimate hook because people are concerned about food and eating and so forth , and that , that would have been a hook you could grab people with , and most people would have thought ‘ That would be something I want to read about . ’ |
| 17 | Before there would have been a striker in there to finish it , so that 's the way to do it , you know the roles are reversed and we 've getting a bit of luck . |
| 18 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 19 | Without the NHS he would have been a cripple . |
| 20 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 21 | This would have been a correlate of the impact value of the thesis , since it would have indicated the level of acknowledgement of the content of the thesis by the same or other authors . |
| 22 | The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals . |
| 23 | Holyfield says that he regrets the fight with Tyson never took place because ‘ that would have been a dream fight . |
| 24 | In the late Fifties , early Sixties , following Look Back In Anger , Roots , A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , Lucky Jim , Room At The Top , a young Burton would have been a dream ticket . |
| 25 | Indeed the whole house would have been a paradise to Mrs Mantini . |
| 26 | Any genuinely orthodox unionist would have been a member since late adolescence ! |
| 27 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 28 | that would have been a decision of Mr |
| 29 | ‘ Mary Joe Fernandez and I got hooked up though , and it would have been a fairy book finish if we could have won it . |
| 30 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |