Example sentences of "would have been [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Scudamore would have been proud of Sansome 's recovery at the Chair . |
| 2 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 3 | He would have been aware of Victor Pasmore 's conversion to abstract art in the late 1940s and of his leading role within the Constructionist movement . |
| 4 | The traditional peoples in the world today , such as the Australian aborigines , are profoundly and naturally psychic and it is at least reasonable therefore to speculate that the ancient peoples were similarly sensitive , and would have been aware of earth energies as a natural part of their environment . |
| 5 | A week ago she would have been full of indignation at the thought of losing her accommodation . |
| 6 | ‘ When I first knew you , you would have been full of despair and melancholy at the thought of clerical life , but now though there is a faint hint of it you are full of hope and joy . ’ |
| 7 | Nothing against him ( MUCH ! ) but if a brawl had developed and he ( Accidently ) got his legs broken I would have been full of sorrow ( NOT ! ) |
| 8 | Instructions of such a length would have been wasteful of storage , so instructions were 20 bits long ( 6 for an operation code , 12 for a store address , and 2 unused ) and held two to a store word , as shown in Figure 1.4 . |
| 9 | For that reason , many people , at least until recently , would have been forgiving of Germany 's decision to abandon the symbol of its guilty conscience by repealing the right to asylum : the reformed character had done enough to show that it was not recidivist . |