Example sentences of "would have been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't believe for one minute I 'd have been the saviour , but I 'd have loved the chance to make a contribution in my country 's hour of need . |
| 2 | I 'd have been the proudest father in the history of the game . ’ |
| 3 | Had the score been the other way round I 'm sure we 'd have been the first match to be shown with umpteen repeats of all the goals . |
| 4 | He 'd have been the one going to the Olympics . |
| 5 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 6 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
| 7 | But the other one I would 've er suggested would 've been the schools . |
| 8 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 9 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 10 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 11 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 12 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 13 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 14 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 15 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 16 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 17 | Under proportional representation — the rule of all other EC member states — the British Greens would have been the largest national group in the Strasbourg Green firmament , where the number of those who regarded themselves as in some way Green had risen from 11 to 43 . |
| 18 | Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas . |
| 19 | But I also knew I could not ; it would have been the death of me . |
| 20 | Perhaps the end would have been the same in any case . |
| 21 | I regret that because there would have been the children after he 'd gone . ’ |
| 22 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 23 | If they had our electoral system they would have been the government . ’ |
| 24 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 25 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 26 | The cavalry technique would have been the single mass charge carrying maximum force , with following attacks from foot soldiers . |
| 27 | If water power had been used , doubtless a turbine would have been the method . |
| 28 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 29 | The name CIA is now synonymous with everything that is corrupt and has certainly turned more people towards Communism than would have been the case had American foreign policy been more open and honest . |
| 30 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |