Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 2 | If he had n't died of that heart attack , he 'd have been a mental wreck . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd have been an interesting man , ’ he said to Florence Ames . |
| 4 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 5 | He would have been a good schoolmaster , I thought : gentle , precise , dry-humoured . |
| 6 | While Chiang had little public support , he would have been a popular choice in the National Assembly , the veteran-dominated body responsible for electing the President . |
| 7 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 8 | But it was shrewd of Joseph to go temporarily AWOL , absent-without-leave , for he would have been an undoubted target for the flak being hurled by an angry Kinnear . |
| 9 | If B. Hunslett had been born 50 years ago , he would have been an ideal candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement . |