Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday trading , for example , is something that one would think was a national matter with the subsidiarity rule applying . |
| 2 | Er where would with er would 've been a front room that was another house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
| 5 | What I would suggest is a straight transfer into … which has resisted the general trend downwards , and should soon be moving right up . |
| 6 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From what we know of him , Simon Peter would have been a typical ‘ adherent of the message ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Indeed , some tattle of Cambridge life would have been a pleasurable relief . |
| 12 | ‘ It would have been a fascinating exercise to auction it on the free market and see how much it got , though ’ , said Maître Binoche . |
| 13 | Given the performance a truer reflection of the game would have been a 6–0 win to Leeds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Blossom would have been a suitable name for the large oilman who arrived in a huge lorry to deliver the central heating oil . |
| 16 | If she and Lowell had had a child it would have been a strange hybrid , perhaps difficult to love . |
| 17 | She had not specified , but somewhere around four thirty to five would have been a reasonable time to return . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By then there would have been a major waste of resources . |
| 20 | In the past , the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event . |
| 21 | In the past there would have been a major famine ; now they have simply called on their own 30-million-ton reserve of wheat . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The loss of the plant would have been a major blow to the local economy . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It would have been a casual thing and not with anyone who was camp , like him . |