Example sentences of "would have be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful .
2 For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War .
3 With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association .
4 This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production .
5 If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well .
6 These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits .
7 THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today .
8 Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’
9 Daeve Pope would have been in heavy metal heaven .
10 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 ? ) .
11 Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that .
12 I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do .
13 On the majority view the defendant was actually left free to work for a subsidiary of GUS which was not involved in the mail order business in the United Kingdom even though that would have been in clear breach of the restriction .
14 Had we done that er you would have er you would have been in queer street .
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