Example sentences of "would [verb] be [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 2 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 3 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 4 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 5 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 6 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 7 | On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much . |
| 8 | To judge from the surviving accounts of the escribano detailed for the occasion , it was a ceremony that today would have been ideal grist for the television networks . |
| 9 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 10 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 11 | His house in Dartmouth was demolished when a new road was made in 1864 , and the fact that the road is named Newcomen Road is no compensation for the loss of a house that would have been holy ground for today 's industrial enthusiasts . |