Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a shame you were n't helping out at Christmas , you 'd 've been able |
| 2 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 4 | But , with the tape , I 'd have been able to extract a pretty pension from him , as Beatrix calculated . |
| 5 | ‘ You mean you 'd have been able to pull strings ? ’ said Bob . |
| 6 | Last night 's fiasco had n't helped , but even without it she wondered if she 'd have been able to cope with her deeply buried resentment towards Romano de Sciorto . |
| 7 | If they had had pistols , they 'd have been able to get a better aim . |
| 8 | They 'd have been able to certify him insane , or he 'd have done something so terrible and criminal they could have put him in prison , where he 'd be sodomised and knifed ; quietly disposed of without any fuss because the rules were different in there . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have been able to live very comfortably if you 'd taken the money I offered , after we separated , ’ he pointed out . |
| 10 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |
| 11 | Erm however we would wish to see that policy complemented by the inclusion of the strategic exceptions policy erm and we know that I know that 's to be discussed tomorrow but I will mention now that I think it would have been much more useful to the discussion if we 'd have been able to discuss the strategic sites issue as part of this debate . |
| 12 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 15 | Thus , on the basis that state pensions became payable to women at 60 and to men at 64 , if the retirement age was 55 , neither would be in a position to claim a pension on retirement ; if it was 60 , women would , but men would not ; if it was 65 , women would have been able to receive since 60 and men would not . |
| 16 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 17 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 18 | Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference . |
| 19 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 20 | ‘ Nobody would have been able to stop you , ’ said Rose . |
| 21 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 22 | I would not have thought a youth of such tender years would have been able … |
| 23 | On that particular occasion , had I not recognized Miss Kenton 's footsteps on the boards as she came towards me , I would have been able to identify her only from her outline . |
| 24 | ‘ I flatter myself ’ , he wrote on the evening after he arrived home , ‘ that even our American friends must admit that nobody but a ‘ Britisher ’ would have been able to successfully cope with such difficulties . ’ |
| 25 | In five other cases a client was at home but admission to an old people 's home was already being organised so the development officer was unable to intervene ( though in three of these cases she said she would have been able to provide home support ) . |
| 26 | The point , however , is that to build a house that stands up requires a knowledge of where every bit goes and what it does — and that knowledge is an order of magnitude and greater than one would have been able to guess at . |
| 27 | In other words , with the correct equipment , listeners would have been able to hear thunder as though coming from above them while hearing ‘ rain ’ trickling around their feet . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 29 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 30 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |