Example sentences of "would [verb] be an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 2 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 3 | But the taxidermy process would have been an expensive business and would have included soaking his skin in tan pits for 14 days , scraping and sandpapering his body , paying the barber for shaving him and cutting his toe nails and one final payment of a shilling for a strong cork . |
| 4 | In their defence , administration officials reply that if they had used more force — for example , to block a third road used by Noriega 's reinforcements -there would have been an unacceptable risk to American troops and Panamanian civilians . |
| 5 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 6 | Erm I I know it was in the context of a a question you posed to him that er if he had in fact er accepted the County Council 's housing figures er that would have been an appropriate hundred and twenty two hectares would have been appropriate er on the employment side . |
| 7 | And the best defence against a new Davidic Messiah , advancing with his legions , would have been an established Messiah already presiding over the Empire — a pro-Pauline Messiah , who had effectively pre-empted the claims of Judaic rivals . |
| 8 | It would have been an illegal boycott , but was seen by the strikers as essential for victory . |
| 9 | ‘ En souvenir de ’ ( ‘ in memory of ’ ) might seem to imply that Jenny and Mme Vidal were dead , but a collection of jolly harpsichord pieces would have been an odd way to memorialize them . |
| 10 | On our right the dark sea which , if the sun were back on , would have been an impossible blue . |
| 11 | Building a tractor from scratch would have been an impossible task , he admits , were it not for the fact that tractor-pulling expert Alan Williams live nearby . |
| 12 | He told me he knew that Ken would have been an impossible person to live with . |
| 13 | And when Travis seemed absolutely stumped for words , she could do no other than fill what would have been an awkward silence with , ‘ I could probably make the lasagne go three ways if … ’ |
| 14 | It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay . |
| 15 | It would have been an amazing goal as the speed and accuracy of the passes was awsome . |
| 16 | If true , this would have been an amazing source of energy . |
| 17 | It wo must have been I mean that was if you to get completely new clothes every time , that would have been an amazing expense would n't it . |
| 18 | Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence . |
| 19 | Such an organization would have been an easy target for Labour 's disciplinarians . |
| 20 | Some biographers have suggested that the reason was that the presence of Mrs Taylor , presiding over one of the great English bishops ' palaces , would have been an embarrassing reminder of the frailty of her natural father , the Royal Martyr . |
| 21 | ‘ It would have been an awful wrench . ’ |
| 22 | And that would have been an awful loss if you had lost a a a a ham . |
| 23 | No one denies that if the story became available it would be seized but , while an autobiography would have been an automatic bestseller at the time of his release , would it still be wonderful if one or five years ' time ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It would have been an impolite breach of the conventions of discussion . |
| 26 | There can be little doubt that , however understandable their response would have been , a violent response would have been an unlawful one . |
| 27 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 28 | He had just completed his preparations — dressed to kill would have been an apt description of his appearance — when suddenly he froze , head cocked in a listening attitude . |
| 29 | Once , these would have been an important farmhouse store for produce that needed safe keeping in a dry place . |
| 30 | A peasant 's garden would have been an important additional source of food for him and his family and , in good years , any surplus could have been sold to augment his income as well . |