Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the number would have been ideal , with the rest ringed around the perimeters . |
| 2 | In the 1840s the aim would have been not so much to save the debtor 's soul as to save his creditors the expense and boredom of having to sue him . |
| 3 | Before the 1840s the answer would have been : to a very small extent . |
| 4 | In the nick south of the river where Nelson had done his early constable training , such a case would have been referred to as an AFD . |
| 5 | And never , of course , replaced ; such a purchase would have been an unjustifiable extravagance . |
| 6 | SUCH a scoreline would have been unimaginable this time last year , but Chelmsford 's new-found strengths more than Oxford 's incredible decline engineered this crushing English League win . |
| 7 | Such a story would have been heavily damaging to the electoral prospects of the Labour Party as it was pledged to end such speculation . |
| 8 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 9 | It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned . |
| 10 | A few months ago , such a campaign would have been unthinkable . |
| 11 | Such a strike would have been a breach of contract by each member . |
| 12 | In Jeremy 's case , given the bad weather and the fact that he was lightly clothed and had left his camping gear at the refuge , such a controller would have been likely to mount a search earlier . |
| 13 | The obvious core of such a following would have been the de Vere supporters , and there was a degree of continuity within the estates , with former de Vere associates like John Coke of Beaumont continuing to farm manors . |
| 14 | The obvious core of such a following would have been the de Veresupporters , and there was a degree of continuity within the estates , with former de Vere associates like John Coke of Beaumont continuing to farm manors . |
| 15 | Such a move would have been legitimate if it had offered the possibility of new kinds of experimental tests , perhaps leading to the discovery of some unexpected feature of the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 16 | Such a wage would have been comparable to or even slightly better than that paid to other craftsmen in the area . |
| 17 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 18 | Such a theory would have been attractive , however . |
| 19 | Instructions of such a length would have been wasteful of storage , so instructions were 20 bits long ( 6 for an operation code , 12 for a store address , and 2 unused ) and held two to a store word , as shown in Figure 1.4 . |
| 20 | Such a situation would have been very common then , and is increasingly common now . |
| 21 | At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans . |
| 22 | In the past , the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event . |
| 23 | Such an act would have been deceitful and irresponsible . ’ |
| 24 | AT the Congress of Vienna the pretensions of Spain were dismissed as those of a cour secondaire ; at the accession of Charles III , in 1759 , such an attitude would have been inconceivable and unrealistic . |
| 25 | Since that state has existed only since 1929 , such an event would have been truly prodigious . |
| 26 | But in a newspaper report on the trial , such an omission would have been absurd and itself an act of collusion with racism . |
| 27 | In the late 1980s , such an inquiry would have been welcome but was now unnecessary . |
| 28 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 29 | The William and Mary declaration being 1688 , it suggests that such a lease might have run from that date , but it could have been earlier , in which case such an arrangement would have been almost certainly ultra vires . |
| 30 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |