Example sentences of "he would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 32 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 33 | He would have been shocked , she admits , by the mere existence of her organisation : the Movement for Christian Democracy , a pressure group run jointly by evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics . |
| 34 | However , he would have been shocked to know of the pagan pleasure in nature and pretty womanhood experienced by Angel . |
| 35 | Ships in the night , holiday romance etcetera , he would have sensibly suggested , and of course he would have been right . |
| 36 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 37 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 38 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 39 | If a player did not use a large dynamic range , he would have been content with a piano without a check . |
| 40 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 41 | He would have been surprised if it had been otherwise . |
| 42 | It was several months before anything significant happened in Edward 's life — by which time he was so sick of the stagnant war that he would have been prepared to be parachuted into the heart of Germany wearing a kilt . |
| 43 | He would have been amazed to learn that subsequent generations would make such stuff the foundation of dogmas . |
| 44 | Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford . |
| 45 | He would have been horrified , and very likely never have been my friend again . |
| 46 | Had he consulted a solicitor the previous week , before the regulations came into force , he would have been eligible without contribution . |
| 47 | For example , he would have been interested in the fact that the English word ‘ uncle ’ can be used in speaking both of one 's mother 's brother and one 's father 's brother while in Swedish , for instance , two different words are used . |
| 48 | He would have been afraid . |
| 49 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 50 | All he would have been aware of was the ball and the net . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 53 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 54 | Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference . |
| 55 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 56 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 57 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 58 | If she had given him time he would have been able to show her passion , he knew , but it was hard for him to relax and act confidently after years of being cowed in a stern loveless household . |
| 59 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 60 | On this and many other occasions he would have been able to gauge the strength of local feeling against Richard 's imperious rule . |