Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he 'd have been happy with a five . |
| 2 | Bond said : ‘ I 'd have been happy to attend the game but have been advised by others not to . |
| 3 | I 'd have been happy to transcribe them just anyplace . ’ |
| 4 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I DO NOT feel , writes PC Michael B. S. Casey , that Mhoira Robertson would have been happy with an obituary ( by Joan Burnie , 3 October ) that was used as a platform to criticise her colleagues ( antiastunomologists — thank you , Anthony Burgess ) and the male species in general : ‘ and Scottish policemen do not like women much at all . ’ |
| 8 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 9 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 10 | Inspector Reg White , of Holloway Police , said yesterday that his force , which was in charge of the drawn Portsmouth-Liverpool semi-final the Sunday before last , would have been happy to stage another replay at two or three days notice provided that certain financial requirements were met . |
| 11 | If I were a doctor I would have been happy to stay in Calcutta and work alongside British doctor , Jack Pregar , and his clinic in Middleton Row . |
| 12 | Tamar would have been happy to finish the association , but Davis would not release his hold on her . |
| 13 | A purely commercial operation would have been happy to finance product-ions by Orson Welles , who repeatedly proved himself capable of producing high quality material on a shoestring . |
| 14 | Since most Right-Ons would have been happy with a national version of a publication such as City Limits or Spare Rib , which specialized in redefining the world 's priorities as their own , the comparison with the Guardian was daring . |
| 15 | The chairmen , jealous of their independence , would have been happy to see less uniformity in practice , but as the requirements of justifying the industry 's policies to Whitehall became more apparent , they accepted ( albeit often reluctantly ) the Central Authority 's point that consistency between Boards was easier to defend than were individual policies which each Board considered right . |
| 16 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 17 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 18 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |
| 20 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 21 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 22 | Rain rallied although she would have been happy to stay where she was , lying on the bed . |
| 23 | ‘ We would have been happy to have matched last year , so we are delighted with our performance . ’ |
| 24 | He would have been happy if he might have affected not to see her . |
| 25 | She went , moving like a sleepwalker past Ned O'Mara , who might even be in love with her , past the ginger-haired barmaid who would have been happy to settle for Ned and therefore hated her , past the mousy-haired barmaid who had a good man of her own and could therefore afford to pity her . |
| 26 | He discriminated against them in his tariff policies and would have been happy to exchange them for land in Pomerania , Saxony or Mecklenburg . |
| 27 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 28 | Lady Eleanor would have been comfortable but securely kept , and I would have been happy . ’ |
| 29 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 30 | These were Stalin 's policies , and the leaders of many nations would have been happy to have seen him removed . |