Example sentences of "[noun sg] would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 2 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 3 | Some tabulation would have been useful . |
| 4 | If the boy had growled over his shoulder : ‘ Stand out of my light ! ’ the illusion would have been complete . |
| 5 | Had forty more parents voted , the vote would have been valid . |
| 6 | Had the limit not been stated , the rent would have been unascertainable , and the stamp duty would have been £2 . |
| 7 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 8 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 9 | ‘ Most others in the chemical industry would have been delighted to have them . ’ |
| 10 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 11 | This result would have been different during the O'Keeffe frenzy of the mid-Eighties , when the painting would have sold , and probably for more . |
| 12 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 13 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 14 | ‘ Defeat would have been catastrophic to morale . ’ |
| 15 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 16 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 17 | He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses . |
| 18 | In any case the stock fence would have been essential . |
| 19 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 20 | In other words , the effect would have been that , even where official DSS error was proven and admitted in the case of those receiving supplementary benefit prior to 1988 , no back payment to rectify the error would have been made . |
| 21 | I pointed out that if there had been any counter demonstration effect would have been serious and very uncomfortable to both of us . |
| 22 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 23 | The original bivariate effect would have been larger than the effect once sex is controlled in this case , because once more it will contain a spurious component . |
| 24 | Partnership would have been unthinkable , for he was so expansive , both physically and in personality , that there was no room left for anyone else . |
| 25 | All the buildings were well constructed and with adequate maintenance would have been capable of surviving for many generations . |
| 26 | Frere 's thanksgiving for his wife 's recovery was heartfelt , for that loss would have been irreparable ; and his rejoicing at her return was genuine enough ; but how short-lived . |
| 27 | Furthermore , if a citizen suffers loss as a result of failure by a Member State to implement a directive , the citizen may be entitled to recover damages for that loss from the State even if the relevant provisions of the directive are not directly effective and even if , had the directive been implemented , the citizen would have been entitled to damages from another citizen rather than the state . |
| 28 | The news of my pregnancy would shatter him ( convincing him of an immaculate conception would have been easier . ) |
| 29 | If the temple had been stripped of its wealth and its income from land , then the priestly college would have been unable to maintain such a large establishment , since the rising level of the water-table would have necessitated major engineering works . |
| 30 | Given the importance of the " last in , first out " principle in British industry , the experiences of many members of the temporary labour force would have been little different from what they actually were . |