Example sentences of "that would [verb] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 2 | That would have been impossible for the Shah . |
| 3 | My inclination was to decline , but as that would have been discourteous in the extreme to Wilson , for whom I then had enormous respect , I agreed to see him . |
| 4 | In 1960 ( say the official records ) two people committed suicide in Greenland ; that would have been six per 100,000 . |
| 5 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 6 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 7 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 8 | That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . ) |
| 9 | ‘ A normal baby arrives head first to make childbirth as easy as possible — and even that would have been difficult for her , given her narrow pelvis — You do know what and where a pelvis is , I hope , McAllister ? ’ |