Example sentences of "would have be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | alderman Hussey was mayor of the City in 1758 and he would have been pleased that his idea of bringing a clean water supply to St. Edmund 's and St. Martin 's Parishes was still quite useful almost 170 years later . |
| 2 | Lady More has told us that her husband would have been pleased that this society has been formed , thus ensuring that the BCR will not be forgotten . |
| 3 | She would have been pleased that the youngsters who come and go will have fond memories of their day in hospital . |
| 4 | Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed . |
| 5 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 6 | From the House of Lords and the National Union he became a thorn in the flesh of the party leaders , where in a party government it would have been inconceivable that such a man , at the height of his powers and with powerful connections . |
| 7 | Not long ago , it would have been inconceivable that two of Britain 's great sporting events , Wimbledon and the British Open , would be represented by a lawyer from Cleveland , Ohio . |
| 8 | A decade ago it would have been inconceivable that we would now know enough about the molecules of cancer to consider genetic intervention . |
| 9 | Elizabeth reacted to Greece as one would have been sure that she would — her love of flowers , of landscape and of the sea could still then be satisfied . |
| 10 | An observer would have been convinced that Livingstone was in hideous pain but this was not so . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It cost me £58 and again is in excellent condition , and would have been double that price new . |
| 13 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 14 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 15 | Now he is just flattered by the label — ‘ the British Marvin Hagler ’ — which Bob Arum , the American promoter investing that $2 million , has tagged on him ; previously he would have been angry that he himself had not invented it . |
| 16 | Even a few months ago it would have been unthinkable that Howard Kendall 's Moody Blues should face Brian Clough 's Nottingham Forest , as will happen on Saturday , in a match billed as a ‘ relegation battle . ’ |
| 17 | If someone had suggested he should have killed them then , where they lay , and avert all the trouble that was to come , Dulé would have been astonished that such a cowardly procedure could be proposed , let alone seriously entertained . |
| 18 | But had anyone in New York thought to look in New Orleans , it would have been clear that his life was as disorderly as ever . |