Example sentences of "would [verb] [been] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back . |
| 2 | By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago . |
| 3 | He would have been a good schoolmaster , I thought : gentle , precise , dry-humoured . |
| 4 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 5 | Do you think Elvis would have been a good character to have lived into his old age ? |
| 6 | I thought that would have been a good night in the King 's Hall tonight . |
| 7 | Had it been properly directed there would have been a good contract and A would have been liable in damages to B for not delivering the horse . |
| 8 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 9 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 10 | Clearly the Heart of England deal has not been completed and there are difficulties with it , which is a pity as it would have been a good start to the venture . |
| 11 | It would have been a good place to hold a torchlight rally . |
| 12 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |
| 13 | Inevitably the industry came under some pressure from the Government to control this burgeoning demand from domestic consumers , without which the capacity crisis would have been a good deal less serious . |
| 14 | It would have been a good party anyway , even if he had n't met Sara , he thought . |
| 15 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 16 | Town 's first Easter delight came on saturday against Luton at the County Ground … they were given a tough time in this one … a draw would have been a good result … a fair one too … but thanks to Paul Bodin the full-back with a golden boot they went and snatched a win … |
| 17 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 18 | Folly did n't say anything , but she could n't help thinking that the Post Office Tower would have been a better vantage-point , as well as being one of the ‘ sights ’ of London in its own right . |
| 19 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 20 | A solution , of course , is to program the patches in a logical order , but a bank ‘ Down ’ pedal would have been a better idea , especially as the A4 can be used to send MIDI commands to external MIDI devices , such as another processor . |
| 21 | ‘ Cupboard ’ would have been a better description . |
| 22 | Miss Beard , for whom Ruth thought ‘ drab ’ would have been a better description , inclined her head . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe working on water would have been a better description , ’ says Wimpey marketing manager Phil Cusack . |
| 24 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 25 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 26 | I 'm sure someone will tell us that Wetherall had a great game ( he must have — look at the result ! ) but surely Roecastle would have been a better bet ( or even Hodge ? ) . |
| 27 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 28 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 29 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |