Example sentences of "would [verb] be [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 2 | A hairless chest would have been a great advantage for a bisexual like myself . |
| 3 | He left a plate of chocolate biscuits as a peace offering — at any other time it would have been a great treat — and went off with his friends . |
| 4 | It 's lucky it should happen today ; it would have been a great nuisance tomorrow , in the train . ’ |
| 5 | Terence Rigby and his pals were eyeing him and Mallachy with clear intent , and Rosie 's presence would have been a great embarrassment . |
| 6 | It would have been a great deal more difficult because military aircraft use more volatile fuel , and they tend to be armed , they tend to be carrying things that civil aircraft do n't normally carry , so yes , it would 've been much more difficult . |
| 7 | It would have been a great disappointment if someone had n't taken Don 's place . |
| 8 | And finally , a lot of games coming up , a lot of midweek games , so plenty of chance for United to erm continue to climb the table , although three points against the side on equal points really would have been a great bonus would n't it ? |
| 9 | Baldwin then made no demur against the Chancellor 's recommendation ; there would have been a greater chance of his demurring had the decision gone the other way , not because of his views but because of his admiration and affection for Montagu Norman , the intellectually certain Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have been a greater one to have visited you in person . |
| 11 | Oh , was not this delightful , to hurt again the girl who had rejected him , the girl who when all was said and done would have been a greater prize than the vulgar woman he had married for her money ? |
| 12 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |