Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 2 | A lesser orchestra would have been in danger of simply falling apart . |
| 3 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
| 4 | In the football world this manifestly unsuccessful administration would have been on its bike years ago . |
| 5 | If the election had been declared to be void ( as Panama and Liberia asserted ) , the Committee 's actions in the intervening period would have been of no legal effect . |
| 6 | A little hesitation would have been in order . |
| 7 | Its most obvious use would have been in a pharmacy . |
| 8 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 9 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 10 | The potential advantage of more frequent dosing would have been at most a rather small one therefore and would not have changed the main conclusions of this study . |
| 11 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 12 | She went upstairs to change , thinking how proud Arnold would have been of the way she had coped with the water shortage . |
| 13 | This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery . |
| 14 | No self-respecting Victorian or Edwardian woman would have been without a nail buffer , usually made from chamois leather , to ensure that her fingertips were always gleaming . |
| 15 | The only cost would have been for the satellite transmission , which would have been shared . ’ |
| 16 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |
| 17 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |
| 18 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 19 | The upper team would have been on the logging track above the natural amphitheatre when he broke for cover . |
| 20 | If Hank had done something particularly dreadful , either Donna Frizzell or some other nosey parker would have been on her doorstep by now to tell her about it . |
| 21 | For her , the only supreme sacrifice would have been in giving up her husband . |
| 22 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 23 | In such cases virtually the whole award would have been for pain and suffering . |
| 24 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
| 25 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 26 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |