Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [be] reluctant " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 2 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
| 3 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 4 | He would have been reluctant to accede if she had . |
| 5 | The absence of Butler and Kelly forces Barrow into changes he would have been reluctant to make after Saturday 's performance . |