Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] would [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man like that can always replace his front-line troops , so to get only them would have been pointless . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it had happened in a car accident and had been someone else 's fault , perhaps I would 've been bitter . |
| 4 | Lord knows how long I 'd have been stuck in here before they finally realised I was telling the truth . |
| 5 | But the point is it does n't matter who was right , and even less who would have been right ; all that matters is what people felt , because that 's what produced the new ethos of the age ; consensus had led to impasse , care to sterility , so : deliver a shock to the system , take the sort of radical risk with the country that you have to take with a business at least once in its history if it 's to succeed ; go for growth , take the monetarist shilling . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 7 | In German action without escapement , the hammer was attached to the key and so it would have been logical to add an escapement that was independent of the key . |
| 8 | So it would have been possible for the GMC to try to challenge the basis of clinical ecology . |
| 9 | The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers . |
| 10 | I was there , as I said , for two and a half years , so it would have been difficult for the teachers to respond to my presence in an artificial way because I was there for such a long time . |
| 11 | I was there , as I have said , for two and a half years , so it would have been difficult for the teachers to erm respond to my presence erm in an artificial way because I was there for such a long time . |
| 12 | Anyway it would have been foolish to force someone into a life so demanding . |
| 13 | If one can imagine the scene in the village , to put it mildly it would have been hectic . |
| 14 | They speculated on how far it would have been necessary to travel to obtain the stone , and whether one could precisely locate its origin . |
| 15 | A week ago she would have been full of indignation at the thought of losing her accommodation . |
| 16 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 17 | A decade ago it would have been inconceivable that we would now know enough about the molecules of cancer to consider genetic intervention . |
| 18 | Well that 's why I said ten or fifteen years ago it would have been easy to give an answer . |
| 19 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 20 | At the end of the day I still have strong reservations about the software , eighteen months ago it would have been fine but exposure to everything from 1–2–3 to Open Access has left me expecting rather more from an integrated package . |
| 21 | Several years ago it would have been incomprehensible for a rational scientist or physician to conclude that myocardial ischaemia might somehow act to protect the heart from necrosis . |
| 22 | Thirty years ago it would have been unthinkable . |
| 23 | Even a few months ago it would have been unthinkable that Howard Kendall 's Moody Blues should face Brian Clough 's Nottingham Forest , as will happen on Saturday , in a match billed as a ‘ relegation battle . ’ |
| 24 | Surely it would have been possible at least to give the number of people who had been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , and the number of people subsequently charged . |
| 25 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 26 | Then no-one would have been satisfied , let alone the person who is the victim in all this . |
| 27 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 28 | If he 'd yelled at me then I 'd have been delirious , then I could have lived with him … |
| 29 | ‘ Then she would have been able to visit his grave . ’ |
| 30 | Then she would have been free to leave the house whenever she wanted . |