Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 2 | But taking out big sums would have been commercial suicide . ’ |
| 3 | Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used . |
| 4 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 5 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |
| 6 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |