Example sentences of "[vb past] it would have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 2 | In fact , David himself believed it would have been far better to have let the whole matter drop . |
| 3 | It seemed it would have been ill advised to follow the PARIS II route — costs would have been astronomical and timescales unrealistic . |
| 4 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |
| 5 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 6 | Had a more diverse stock existed it would have been more likely for a less familiar tale to have been selected . |
| 7 | Miss Worthington often felt it would have been an unendurable sorrow to her parents if they had lived to witness the extent of the deterioration . |
| 8 | But as it was I felt it would have been presumptive . |
| 9 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 10 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 11 | It 's a lot better than what he thought it would have been . |
| 12 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 13 | The Panel agreed it would have been too traumatic for the children to bring them back . |
| 14 | Later I realised it would have been wiser to have made a stitch on the empty needles and worked a couple of rows before finishing . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 16 | I wonder if he hit the floor … if he did it would have been on his head . |
| 17 | Bird shot it would have been or somewhat larger . |
| 18 | Modugno said it would have been almost impossible for Mansell to see the flag while following closely behind the McLaren-Honda of Ayrton Senna . |
| 19 | After the statement was read , Mr Justice Davies — also the trial judge in the pamphlet action — said it would have been unfair to Count Tolstoy and Mr Watts if the jury in the action against them had been told that ‘ responsible publishers ’ had already paid money into court and agreed to apologise and withdraw a book containing similar charges as those made in the pamphlet . |
| 20 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 21 | And you like them baggy anyway , you do n't get one that fits you er buy That 's why I said it would have been probably better to pay the extra twenty quid and bought the Italian style double- breasted |