Example sentences of "[subord] he would have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 2 | ‘ Right , so Fagg is just more xenophobic and choleric than he would have been in his prime . ’ |
| 3 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |
| 4 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 5 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 6 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 7 | He looked like a local man , at home and unobtrusive in this comfortable country room as he would have been in the border landscape outside . |
| 8 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |