Example sentences of "[adj] would have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the English would have been worse . ’ |
| 2 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 3 | The Church of England Newspaper said , unkindly , that the weakest part of the Lambeth Conference of 1958 was its report on the Bible ; and that this would have been an excellent report for a Lambeth Conference of 1858 not 1958 . |
| 4 | He has a deep religious conviction , which tends towards the ecumenical , and this would have been a perfect expression of his beliefs and also a personal and rewarding spiritual experience . |
| 5 | According to Walter Easey , the ALA police policy advisor , ‘ under Sir Kenneth Newman , this would have been quite impossible . |
| 6 | Roger Kelly is convinced that there are enough people to invest in the centre : ‘ Five years ago this would have been a pipe-dream , but with the rise of the ethical investment movement it 's become a real possibility . |
| 7 | This would have been unwise . |
| 8 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 9 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 10 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 11 | But this would have been difficult because of the problem of creating the ideal pre-birth environment . |
| 12 | I suppose all this would have been welcome in happier times . |
| 13 | By the time a Scots undertaker 's horseman and his widow were dead , ‘ the little they had was all gone ; ’ and this would have been typical enough . |
| 14 | There are many places which may have had galleries in the past , but without reliable references , Deeds , an old painting or some remains of original woodwork they have not been included , tempting though this would have been . |
| 15 | Had the Tuairisc model been adopted , there would have been no question of NICRA initiating demonstrations in Dungannon or Derry ; this would have been the responsibility of purely local groups . |
| 16 | It is a matter for speculation whether or not this would have been enough to cut the ground from underneath the feet of the DHAC , but in any case the situation had been radically transformed by the 5 October march and by the prorogation of Londonderry Corporation announced on 22 November 1968 by the O'Neill government . |
| 17 | From Stirling 's point of view this would have been quite satisfactory , but he smelt danger in the following proposals . |
| 18 | This would have been impossible unless we camped at the foot of Beinn Eibhinn , or had started from Loch Ossian at dawn , or were two gold medalist fell-runners . |
| 19 | In the normal course of events this would have been ‘ tidied up ’ — wiped out as part of the scheme and conveniently buried . |
| 20 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 21 | ( This would have been difficult as Simon was not dead . ) |
| 22 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 23 | If Philippe knew of — or even suspected — the existence of this story , this would have been adequate reason to abolish a powerful movement whose knowledge of it could give the descendants of the Merovingians excuse to usurp the throne , claiming direct lineage from Christ . |
| 24 | This would have been impossible without the link provided from postcoded data ( increasingly available from sources such as cancer registries ) to Ordnance Survey ( OS ) grid references . |
| 25 | This would have been delivered on Saturday evening by Mr. Bishop of Woodfords , the Downton bakers , who also made a delivery on Tuesdays . |
| 26 | Although he gives Rosa and Claude as his mentors , he seldom followed their rigid classical composition , indeed in his mountainous terrain this would have been very difficult . |
| 27 | In the old days this would have been all to the good . |
| 28 | Surely this would have been the ‘ logical ’ outcome if nature were so selfish ? |
| 29 | All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order . |
| 30 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |