Example sentences of "this would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any other house this would 've been normal , but in theirs it was eerie , unnatural . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Just a few months ago walking like this would have been impossible for 12 year old Ashley Smith . |
| 6 | None of this would have been possible without the development of a woven artificial grass . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Rose wished to shake him , and knew this would have been unprofessional . |
| 9 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 10 | On checking the data , it was clear that this would have been inaccurate , since it would have excluded citations not covered by the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) for the period before 1970 . |
| 11 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 12 | This would have been one of our recommendations . |
| 13 | This would have been one of our immediate recommendations . |
| 14 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Christian art it becomes acceptable to portray God ‘ the Father ’ as a male figure , whereas within Judaism this would have been unthinkable . |
| 17 | All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war . |
| 18 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 19 | All this would have been bad enough , even without another little trick nature had up its sleeve : the weather . |
| 20 | This would have been bad enough under any circumstances but in this instance the bullet hit the base of some armour plate in the leading edge of the fin which caused it to split . |
| 21 | This would have been unwise . |
| 22 | All of this would have been enjoyable — or at least bearable — without miserable old mother me having the meanest migraine in living memory . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But six months ago none of this would have been enough to make him invite her company for longer than was politely necessary . |
| 25 | This would have been enough to allow the guardians to purchase 300 hot cross buns for the inmates at current prices ; that , too , was duly authorised for Easter 1930 . |
| 26 | He calculated that by the age of 65 the deceased would have put £18,000 into his firm in working capital ; this would have been repayable and would ultimately have come to the widow and her daughter . |
| 27 | So far as the avoidance of an election commitment was concerned , this would have been sensible from any point of view . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Neville Sims , chairman of the committee that heard the case , said in the statement ( see p 99 ) that while the case was not easy to decide , ‘ in our opinion the relationship between the individuals in Coopers , Asil Nadir and PPI constituted a clear continuing professional relationship , and had you made proper inquiries before accepting the appointment , that this would have been clear to you ’ . |