Example sentences of "and would [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Darlington 's pacing of each Mass movement is well judged , and would have been even more effective if the intervening mass prospers were better contrasted . |
| 2 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's very active and would have been pretty fit first time out . |
| 4 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 5 | In her tennis era , she was leaden-footed and heavy , and would have been perfectly cast as the rear end of a pantomime horse . |
| 6 | She loved this filly and would have been so proud . |
| 7 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 8 | A British Transport police spokesman said : ‘ Fans had been drinking heavily before the accident and would have been fairly merry . ’ |
| 9 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 10 | ‘ If it was , the man could hardly have moved , and would have been almost totally at the mercy of Silk . ’ |
| 11 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 12 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 13 | In England the Lords of Trade certainly had no money to spend on the colonies ; and would have been quite as surprised as any earlier generations at a suggestion that they ought to be spending money on them . |
| 14 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 15 | If a Pamplona Institute on CALL only attracted Navarrans then we would have failed and would have been better off doing something specifically for Catalonia or Madrid . |
| 16 | Mr Major 's sackings had been widely discounted in advance , and would have been more extensive but for Mr Chris Patten and Mr Francis Maude losing their parliamentary seats . |
| 17 | In most cases the development of these functions would have gone hand in hand with the growth of the settlement and would have been directly related to the increasing dependence of the surrounding hinterland on the goods and services which it could provide . |