Example sentences of "it would have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
| 2 | It would 've been a bit dodgy at Wellford Road let alone London Road . |
| 3 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 4 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 6 | The board had considered the chairman 's position seriously , he said , and decided ‘ it would have been a very foolish thing to ask him to step down ’ . |
| 7 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 8 | It would have been a mature house already in Shakespeare 's time , a ‘ black and white ’ house , timbered , solid , so perfect a place to live in that it seemed in advance to confer upon its owner grace and taste and superiority . |
| 9 | It would have been a lot easier to have done nothing . |
| 10 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 11 | It would have been a sensible place in which to have encountered a loving creator , but it was a wretched spot for a pale and spindly child to fall victim to the predatory hunger of an Italian prisoner of war with a tobacco tin filled with metal rings made in the camp workshop three miles away across the woods . |
| 12 | Usually , no doubt , the audience shared the unstated assumptions , but even if they did not , it would have been a solecism to answer the question . |
| 13 | He thought of saying , ‘ Hello , Irena ! ’ but it would have been a rude interruption and he replaced the phone . |
| 14 | It would have been a devastating blow to morale in that summer , when everyone was on hair-trigger invasion alert . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It got to the point where they were jumping on the bonnet and it would have been a matter of time before they ran over my roof . ’ |
| 16 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 17 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 18 | It would just have been possible to detour and commit the murder in Cross Street , but it would have been a very tight schedule indeed . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , laughing also , ‘ it would have been a must curious alternative . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It would have been a tragedy for Hampshire if the Watercress Line had to close , ’ Mr. Dean continued . |
| 21 | It would have been a much more efficient use of the Cabinet system , the committee system . |
| 22 | ‘ I fancy it would have been a Palace final more worth watching than many a struggle at Sydenham … |
| 23 | It would have been a platformless stop for JTR , like the Wild West of America . |
| 24 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |
| 25 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 26 | If the combination had worked it would have been a stimulating text . |
| 27 | This might seem like a horrifying amount to spend in eight months ( and it would have been a lot more were Caterham 's labour rate not a reasonable £20 an hour ) , but you have to remind yourself that five services would last the average Caterham owner until 1996 . |
| 28 | Because — even if you are ill and ca n't get much fun out of life — it would have been a messy kind of end . |
| 29 | I thought you 'd at least ask the reasons … it would have been a chance to admit where things went wrong . |
| 30 | It would have been a distressing upheaval indeed — I think Elizabeth found ‘ Braemar ’ so depressing that she did not enter as deeply as I into Ivy 's sufferings ; she could not help hoping that a change might be for the better . |