Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been a bit more calm , I would have thought , ‘ There 's someone out there 1 6 who cares . ’ |
| 2 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 3 | I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess . |
| 4 | I would have been a street killer |
| 5 | Without your help I would have been a frog for ever . |
| 6 | If I had asked myself these questions before I rushed into marriage , I would have been a lot better off . |
| 7 | So , although interpreting her character nowadays , she is quite immoral and dishonest , to the Christian audience in those days , she would have been a heroine . |
| 8 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 9 | Had the yacht not lost her mast during one of the Lymington autumn series races last year , she would have been a contender for top boat . |
| 10 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 11 | You 've Radio York all week , they must have been over er over overwhelmed for callers I imagine this week , I would have thought you would have been a boon to anybody 's talk show . |
| 12 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 13 | The way we played when beating Leicester at Filbert , we would have been a match for any side , including Villa . ’ |
| 14 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 15 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 16 | As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ? |
| 17 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 18 | Tukalo — ‘ he would have been a hero , ’ noted Rutherford sympathetically — did not enjoy such fortune and was engulfed by the visitors ' defence who pirated possession to clear . |
| 19 | Without the NHS he would have been a cripple . |
| 20 | This was just as well , because as a native he would have been a bit hard to take . |
| 21 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 22 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 23 | The whole operation was performed with such straightforward openness that I believe , had he observed my slight embarrassment — which stemmed chiefly from the unexpectedness of the action — he would have been a trifle put out . |
| 24 | If he had , he would have been a disaster in the smoke-filled rooms but a darling with the tabloids and the public . |
| 25 | John-William , who knew that he would have been a Chartist himself had he remained a poor man , felt sorry about that death . |
| 26 | With regular top-level practice he would have been a world beater ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Mary Joe Fernandez and I got hooked up though , and it would have been a fairy book finish if we could have won it . |
| 28 | It would have been a back-of-the-head shot . |
| 29 | It would have been a pity to break those very handsome seals , I 'm glad I held my hand . ’ |
| 30 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |