Example sentences of "would have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've been a bit dodgy at Wellford Road let alone London Road . |
| 2 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 3 | No one would 've eaten anything and my party would 've been a flop . ’ |
| 4 | Another footprint would 've been a shock , a threat . |
| 5 | ‘ There would 've been a riot . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 10 | It would have been a pity to break those very handsome seals , I 'm glad I held my hand . ’ |
| 11 | Sails would have been a hindrance . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | Without the NHS he would have been a cripple . |
| 16 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Holyfield says that he regrets the fight with Tyson never took place because ‘ that would have been a dream fight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Indeed the whole house would have been a paradise to Mrs Mantini . |
| 22 | Any genuinely orthodox unionist would have been a member since late adolescence ! |
| 23 | ( 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 ? ) |
| 24 | that would have been a decision of Mr |
| 25 | ‘ Mary Joe Fernandez and I got hooked up though , and it would have been a fairy book finish if we could have won it . |
| 26 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 27 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 28 | It would have been a back-of-the-head shot . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , laughing also , ‘ it would have been a must curious alternative . ’ |
| 30 | That would have been a laugh , would n't it ? ’ |