Example sentences of "would have be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 2 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |
| 3 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 4 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 5 | If the proposals which I put forward on behalf of the Conservative group had been adopted , £15,000 not £1,500 would have been available for practical environmental issues this year . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance . |
| 8 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |
| 9 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 10 | Batty would have been useful in this match … not only in the playing sense , but we had lots of throw ins level with their box , Batty would have got these into a danger area … |
| 11 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 12 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 13 | High water tables would have been conducive to hot springs at elevated locations , without requiring changes in the intensity of heat sources . |
| 14 | And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life . |
| 15 | In the 1920s and 1930s a large percentage of the so-called ancient material which would have been familiar to interested collectors was the product of this well-established manufacture . |
| 16 | However , the position would have been different if the nodes had been defective and caused damage or injury to the buyer : the seller would then have been open to a claim in tort , or perhaps under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , but would have been unprotected by any exclusion , limitation or indemnity clauses . |
| 17 | He had normal hearing all his life and would have been unaware of deaf people if he had not been " adopted " as a young orphan by the Rev J Jennings , a deaf mute minister and founder of the South London Gospel Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 18 | However , without the programme it would have been extinct by 1977 ; it still exists today as a special branch of the Blonde d'Aquitaine , low in numbers but acting as a precious reservoir of interesting dairy-type genes . |
| 19 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 20 | Transworld would have been involved in 300 bookshop events in the year to the end of June . |
| 21 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 22 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 23 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 24 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 25 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 26 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 27 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 28 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 29 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
| 30 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |