Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] able [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd have been able to live very comfortably if you 'd taken the money I offered , after we separated , ’ he pointed out . |
| 3 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |
| 4 | Last night 's fiasco had n't helped , but even without it she wondered if she 'd have been able to cope with her deeply buried resentment towards Romano de Sciorto . |
| 5 | Erm however we would wish to see that policy complemented by the inclusion of the strategic exceptions policy erm and we know that I know that 's to be discussed tomorrow but I will mention now that I think it would have been much more useful to the discussion if we 'd have been able to discuss the strategic sites issue as part of this debate . |
| 6 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 7 | If they had had pistols , they 'd have been able to get a better aim . |
| 8 | They 'd have been able to certify him insane , or he 'd have done something so terrible and criminal they could have put him in prison , where he 'd be sodomised and knifed ; quietly disposed of without any fuss because the rules were different in there . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean you 'd have been able to pull strings ? ’ said Bob . |
| 10 | But , with the tape , I 'd have been able to extract a pretty pension from him , as Beatrix calculated . |
| 11 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 12 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 13 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 14 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 15 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 16 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 17 | Without engaging in processes such as these , nobody would have been able to create the procedures and systems mentioned above in the first place . |
| 18 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 19 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 20 | ‘ Nobody would have been able to stop you , ’ said Rose . |
| 21 | ‘ Then she would have been able to visit his grave . ’ |
| 22 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 23 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 24 | If you 'd been around , I 'm sure I would have been able to say no . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Not that I would have been able to do much anyway , that thing 's a death trap ! |
| 26 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 27 | This Bill redefined British nationality , excluding perhaps millions who previously would have been able to claim citizenship . |
| 28 | On any other morning , Bissett would have been able to live with the thudding blast of the explosives and with the crisp rattle of sub-machine gun and pistol fire . |
| 29 | Because that would mean that he would have been able to hold on to his job . |
| 30 | Thus , on the basis that state pensions became payable to women at 60 and to men at 64 , if the retirement age was 55 , neither would be in a position to claim a pension on retirement ; if it was 60 , women would , but men would not ; if it was 65 , women would have been able to receive since 60 and men would not . |