Example sentences of "[pron] would have be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been grateful to someone like you when I was little , but I was not so lucky . |
| 2 | I would have been useless in the Inca army , covering their network of roads up and down the Andes from Ecuador to Chile . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have been interested in Porter if Michael had not come through as he has , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Nothing against him ( MUCH ! ) but if a brawl had developed and he ( Accidently ) got his legs broken I would have been full of sorrow ( NOT ! ) |
| 5 | I would have been happy with refurbishment of my old flat . |
| 6 | I would have been thrilled to bits . |
| 7 | I would have been satisfied with England , Germany , France or any democratic country , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I would have been satisfied in any event that all interested parties must have anticipated that the operation of a commercial port would not be limited to the day time , but would carry on throughout the 24 hours of every day . |
| 9 | Then he locked his father in a grip Ray himself would have been proud of . |
| 10 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 11 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |
| 12 | The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system . |
| 13 | She had hung up a Breughel pint , and the golden patterns on the wall brought it to life — the Elizabethan diamond panes casting shafts of light and designs which would have been impossible through a modern window . |
| 14 | With this freedom , much could happen which would have been impossible under Lanfranc . |
| 15 | Opportunities have become available to them which would have been impossible in hospital . |
| 16 | Every act I took which would have been impossible in my own age served to disperse the sheet-anchors that held my personality . |
| 17 | In the 1920s and 1930s a large percentage of the so-called ancient material which would have been familiar to interested collectors was the product of this well-established manufacture . |
| 18 | This means that in the case of a community service order , the court which revokes the order must sentence the offender to a sentence which would have been available on the occasion when the community service order was made , and if it is considering whether the offender qualifies for a custodial sentence for the purposes of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) , must consider his history and attitude on the day when the original order was made . |
| 19 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 20 | In contrast , the comparative stability of , for instance , Mesozoic environments might have allowed the establishment of complex ecosystems characterized by comparatively stenotopic organisms , which would have been vulnerable to even modest environmental vicissitudes . |
| 21 | A gene which causes its carrier to forgo reproduction in favour of raising relatives will increase in frequency in the population if the number of replicas of the gene in those relatives is greater than the number which would have been present in its own offspring . |
| 22 | Thomas felt that if this was one of the shapechangers then it would have transformed itself into a creature which would have been untouched by the explosion . |
| 23 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 24 | In a statement to the Skupština in July 1987 ( Politika , 25 July ( 987 ) , the vice-president of the government mentioned that the total foreign exchange losses of banks and ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ( presumably at that time ) amounted to 10,000 billion dinars , which would have been equivalent to about $15 billion at the current rate of exchange . |
| 25 | However , ideology apart , there is considerable evidence of a degree of senior bureaucratic bungling and the suppression of scientific reports which would have been embarrassing to the senior members of the bureaucracy if Komarov ( 1981 ) as the chief informant is to be believed , along with other writers such as Cherenvisinov ( 1964 ) , Goldman ( 1972 ) or Kirby ( 1972 ) . |
| 26 | Elsewhere the errors were more elementary — during a scene which looked suspiciously like product placement for a Canadian lager there was a continuity error which would have been embarrassing in a home-movie . |
| 27 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 28 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
| 29 | ‘ Agreement was reached that , rather than play an anthem for one team and not the other , which would have been discourteous to the visiting team , no anthems at all would be played . |
| 30 | Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies . |