Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1	At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans .
2	Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French .
3	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 .
4	The old USSR would have been proud of such central control .
5	Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking .
6	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 .
7	A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already .
8	The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue .
9	Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on .
10	John Smith would have been aware of those risks yesterday .
11	A few years ago any self respecting farmer would have been ashamed of this field , with its bumper crop of nettles and thistles …
12	Without the qualification , Johnson felt the remark would have been devoid of enjoyable meaning .
13	He saw Preobrazhensky as viewing the problem only in terms of struggle and confrontation , which would have been disruptive of social equilibrium .
14	Blagg would have been dead of old age before we got clearance . ’
15	There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial .

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