Example sentences of "and would [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 2 | It was June the fifteenth , and would have been Evan Roberts ' 85th birthday , but he died a month before . |
| 3 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 4 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 5 | His greeting was always the same ( and would have been , Jane was sure , in the middle of an earthquake ) : ‘ YOU AU ROIGHT ? ’ |
| 6 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 7 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 10 | Mr Major 's sackings had been widely discounted in advance , and would have been more extensive but for Mr Chris Patten and Mr Francis Maude losing their parliamentary seats . |
| 11 | Though Lancashire are far below full strength , Grayson has earned his place on merit having captained the powerful North Under-21s to the ADT divisional age-group title and would have been in the side even had the Orrell contingent been available , Martin Strett being ineligible having represented the Northern Division in October . |
| 12 | But we were surprised that not once during our visit were the words ‘ land reform ’ so much as mentioned , although what has happened there most certainly counts as this , and would have been of interest to the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development held by FAO in 1979 . |
| 13 | If a Pamplona Institute on CALL only attracted Navarrans then we would have failed and would have been better off doing something specifically for Catalonia or Madrid . |
| 14 | Wordsworth probably never knew how his walks with Dorothy and Coleridge had been misrepresented by the garrulous old man , and would have been sorry to discover the truth . |
| 15 | To have devised the material ‘ in house ’ using DES and HMI would have been and would have been seen to be unhealthily parochial ; to have used the National Curriculum Council would have involved too great a delay . |
| 16 | Heavy beams were lifted into place using a wooden hoist , but a lot of the work was done by sheer muscle power and would have been carried out by slaves . |
| 17 | Stephen Darlington 's pacing of each Mass movement is well judged , and would have been even more effective if the intervening mass prospers were better contrasted . |
| 18 | The traditional peoples in the world today , such as the Australian aborigines , are profoundly and naturally psychic and it is at least reasonable therefore to speculate that the ancient peoples were similarly sensitive , and would have been aware of earth energies as a natural part of their environment . |
| 19 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 20 | ‘ If it was , the man could hardly have moved , and would have been almost totally at the mercy of Silk . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 22 | At the time he was engaged in resisting his extradition to the US and would have been unable to attend . |
| 23 | So Lewis did not say , even to himself , when he was privately considering trying to get hold of his son in Tenerife , that he disliked Adam and would have been pleased to spoil his holiday . |
| 24 | The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids . |
| 25 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 26 | In her tennis era , she was leaden-footed and heavy , and would have been perfectly cast as the rear end of a pantomime horse . |
| 27 | Top seed Seles , who has three Grand Slam titles among her nine tournament victories this year , finished off the 14th-ranked Tauziat in 50 minutes , and would have been in the locker room even sooner but for a lapse in concentration during the second set . |
| 28 | A British Transport police spokesman said : ‘ Fans had been drinking heavily before the accident and would have been fairly merry . ’ |
| 29 | She loved this filly and would have been so proud . |
| 30 | It means incidentally , ‘ bridge wooden shakey ’ and would have been a funny name for a station in the land of King George ! |