Example sentences of "would have be [adj] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | the cabin is smart and modern , and the panel well-stocked … but we would have been grateful for an autopilot . |
| 2 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 3 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 4 | It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue . |
| 5 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |