Example sentences of "he would have [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 2 | Without the NHS he would have been a cripple . |
| 3 | He would have been a jolly good permanent secretary . |
| 4 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 5 | This was just as well , because as a native he would have been a bit hard to take . |
| 6 | With regular top-level practice he would have been a world beater ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 8 | He would have been a good schoolmaster , I thought : gentle , precise , dry-humoured . |
| 9 | If he had , he would have been a disaster in the smoke-filled rooms but a darling with the tabloids and the public . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | John-William , who knew that he would have been a Chartist himself had he remained a poor man , felt sorry about that death . |
| 14 | The whole operation was performed with such straightforward openness that I believe , had he observed my slight embarrassment — which stemmed chiefly from the unexpectedness of the action — he would have been a trifle put out . |
| 15 | While Chiang had little public support , he would have been a popular choice in the National Assembly , the veteran-dominated body responsible for electing the President . |
| 16 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought he would have been a real deep brown actually . |