Example sentences of "would have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has shifted to the mere expression of a wish , so that would have is almost synonymous with would like . |
| 2 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 3 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 4 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 5 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 6 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 7 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 8 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No real consultation would have been necessary on that score . |
| 11 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 12 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 13 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 14 | How easy , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , it would have been to write : Lo , Cadmus ' grandson enters Diana 's grove , but no , Ovid defers the verb for a line and a half , telling us — what ? |
| 15 | In every case , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , if we had not done what we did but something else the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 16 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 17 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 18 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 19 | The cost of the call via BT would have been £29.25 at the cheap rate after 8pm , BT confirmed . |
| 20 | ‘ It would have been possible for him , I think . |
| 21 | She knew of at least one reason why each of these six women would have been glad to see Handsome Henry dead . |
| 22 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 23 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 24 | It would have been lovely , but it could n't really be one of us , could it ? |
| 25 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 26 | ‘ At least Arthur would have been there , ’ said her husband . |
| 27 | ‘ That would have meant , ’ said the inspector alertly , ‘ that anyone who knew where you were all sitting would have been able work out who would get which plate in the pile . ’ |
| 28 | It would have been much more subtle just to have allowed his wife to demonstrate it when the time came and then to turn it into a talking point . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ In court it would have been his word against mine , so what can you do ? |
| 30 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |