Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] be in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 2 | ‘ Right , so Fagg is just more xenophobic and choleric than he would have been in his prime . ’ |
| 3 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 4 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 5 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |