Example sentences of "would [pers pn] [adv] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 2 | I realized that in fact she was absolutely determined on going , she had n't the imagination to act out this sort of scene to punish me , nor , to be fair , would she ever have been so spiteful if she had . |
| 3 | So would she really have been any less affected if it had happened to her now , at the age of twenty-five ? |
| 4 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 5 | Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’ |
| 6 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 7 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 8 | But would it not have been sensible to go and see for himself , before rushing off a wholly inaccurate letter ? |
| 9 | Would it not have been better to imagine the possibility of a different , better world ? |
| 10 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 11 | ‘ Would it not have been more usual for your daughter to have stayed with her mother ? ’ |
| 12 | But would it not have been better , he mused , to have left the banqueting hall and defended the Residency where there was a well ? |
| 13 | But , in that case , would it not have been enough to defend Saudi Arabia and maintain the pressure on Saddam Hussein through sanctions ? |
| 14 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 15 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |
| 16 | Even had the bid been financed mainly with borrowed cash , would it not have been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ? |
| 17 | This uncle who was also presumably the uncle of er , not only the Rivers ' children , but would he also have been the uncle of Re Mrs Reed 's |
| 18 | Would he still have been in collusion with his master ? |