Example sentences of "would have been [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ Unix Lite would have been okay four years ago , but with the performance and memory capacity of today 's machines — and their future potential — we do n't need cut-down Unix . |
| 3 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 5 | Studies like those described by Dean ( 1982 ) , in which he attempted to distinguish between deficits in visual memory and visual object categorization following damage to part of the visual association cortex in rhesus monkeys , would have been unthinkable forty years ago . |