Example sentences of "would [adv] have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , you had , you had thought about it and so it would just have been a case of saying , yes , this is obvious . |
| 2 | The owner of the estate in the fourth century would thus have been a Firminus , since it is reasonably certain that this building stone belonged to the house built c . |
| 3 | A Swansea visit to Twickenham would once have been a highlight of Harlequins ' season but an almost-empty HQ will be an eerie sort of place this afternoon and we may rest assured that the Quins players already have their attention on next Saturday 's First Division visit to Bedford . |
| 4 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 5 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 6 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 7 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 8 | Not that it would really have been a problem , other then psychologically . |
| 9 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 10 | Aldfrith would then have been a man in his early thirties at his accession in 685 , which seems more credible . |
| 11 | And if Jesus incorporated in himself the double role of royal and priestly Messiah , he would indeed have been a figure worthy of such adherence . |
| 12 | Had shock therapy been applied and not led to the results expected , then it would indeed have been a failure . |
| 13 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 14 | I 'm almost certain I would never have been a writer if it was n't for the Moroneys . |
| 15 | It would have to be taken out to the van , and that would certainly have been a job for mother and son , a major job at that . |