Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think they 'd have been impressed even if he 'd told them |
| 2 | Just the same , she would have been well ahead but for those policemen turning up again and wanting to ask poor Mrs Fanshawe more questions . |
| 3 | The court said obiter that the accused would have been guilty even if the police had shot dead an innocent bystander , though the actual victim was innocent too . |
| 4 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 5 | It would have been nice actually if somebody had said , we 're not going to have quality management , we 're going to have uck management . |
| 6 | SIR JACOB : " T would have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden , Madam , let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation . |
| 7 | Had it been severable , i.e. if it had been the sale of separate lots to be separately paid for , then presumably the contract would have been void only as to those lots which were not complete at the time of the contract . |
| 8 | I thought this was very unfair and erm , but then luckily really because erm I do n't think I would have let the job would have been difficult even if er I 'd had my wife as , for transporting me around to these various people . |
| 9 | 1 think he would have been amused rather than otherwise at finding his own dishes reappearing as specialities of the starry restaurants of the 1970s , and pleased that reforms in the matter of lighter meals and more logical sauce and vegetable cookery which he had preached in the 1930s have at last been put into practice . |
| 10 | He does what he has to do in situations of moral dilemma , though he knows it to be wrong , because to act differently would have been wrong also though not in the same way . |
| 11 | This suggests that the boundaries of acceptable behaviour lie beyond mere unreasonableness , that the directors would have been liable only if on no tenable view of the facts could their actions have benefited the company : in other words , if they had behaved in a way that was perverse . |
| 12 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 13 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |