Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 2 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 3 | ‘ If they were happy enough to let me through the door then they should have been happy to let me win their draw . |
| 4 | What remains is regret , a persistent idea that they might have been happy in the homeplace , if only they could have survived there . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been much better if I could have been happy working at the forge . |
| 6 | But for his guardians and his lack of friends , he could have been happy here , he thought as he went round the front of the car to open the door for Madeleine . |
| 7 | If only it had left us alone , we could have been happy , we could have gone on being happy . |
| 8 | Now he had met her again , he found a different woman — and the one who was now emerging was the one with whom , ironically , Amotju could have been happy . |
| 9 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 10 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |
| 11 | In fact he 'd have been happy with a five . |
| 12 | Bond said : ‘ I 'd have been happy to attend the game but have been advised by others not to . |
| 13 | I 'd have been happy to transcribe them just anyplace . ’ |
| 14 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 15 | And it adds : ‘ Richard Oster , of the Cookson engineering group , may have been happy to make do on £628,611 , a rise of only four per cent , as his company recorded a fall in profits of 65 per cent . ’ |
| 16 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 17 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I DO NOT feel , writes PC Michael B. S. Casey , that Mhoira Robertson would have been happy with an obituary ( by Joan Burnie , 3 October ) that was used as a platform to criticise her colleagues ( antiastunomologists — thank you , Anthony Burgess ) and the male species in general : ‘ and Scottish policemen do not like women much at all . ’ |
| 19 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 20 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 21 | Inspector Reg White , of Holloway Police , said yesterday that his force , which was in charge of the drawn Portsmouth-Liverpool semi-final the Sunday before last , would have been happy to stage another replay at two or three days notice provided that certain financial requirements were met . |
| 22 | If I were a doctor I would have been happy to stay in Calcutta and work alongside British doctor , Jack Pregar , and his clinic in Middleton Row . |
| 23 | Tamar would have been happy to finish the association , but Davis would not release his hold on her . |
| 24 | A purely commercial operation would have been happy to finance product-ions by Orson Welles , who repeatedly proved himself capable of producing high quality material on a shoestring . |
| 25 | Since most Right-Ons would have been happy with a national version of a publication such as City Limits or Spare Rib , which specialized in redefining the world 's priorities as their own , the comparison with the Guardian was daring . |
| 26 | The chairmen , jealous of their independence , would have been happy to see less uniformity in practice , but as the requirements of justifying the industry 's policies to Whitehall became more apparent , they accepted ( albeit often reluctantly ) the Central Authority 's point that consistency between Boards was easier to defend than were individual policies which each Board considered right . |
| 27 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 28 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 29 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |