Example sentences of "[adv] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a gentle character , who perhaps would have been happier as the abbot of a Buddhist monastery . |
| 2 | A simple statement to explain why Charles was staying away so long would have been better than nothing . |
| 3 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 4 | ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door . |
| 5 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |
| 6 | There are no indications from Berry ( No. 2 ) that this was contemplated and considerable reason to think that any attempt to have done so would have been futile . |
| 7 | Perfumery is perhaps an even more ancient art than dyeing ; it is a more obvious constituent of a plant , so would have been experimented with earlier , to disguise bad smells if nothing else , such as those of rotting meat and decaying vegetation . |
| 8 | It was impossible to refuse his request ; to do so would have been an insult . |
| 9 | Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection . |
| 10 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 11 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 12 | I suppose the milking machines coming in would have been another |
| 13 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 14 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 15 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 16 | Normally , to go out alone would have been unthinkable , but unoccupied men were thin on the ground now and invitations almost non-existent . |
| 17 | Their needs alone would have been enough reason — were enough — for a number of us over the next three to four years to stay in a male organization , with largely male resources for mainly male callers and to join with some of those men to change it . |
| 18 | One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure . |
| 19 | That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path . |
| 20 | These factors alone would have been sufficient to convince advertisers that it was not the medium for the affluent ‘ never-had-it-so-good ’ Macmillan era . |
| 21 | British support alone would have been at least a mixed blessing . |
| 22 | For myself , I think the moat alone would have been quite enough , but I dare say one gets used to the feeling that we might all sink . ’ |
| 23 | The Caucasus alone would have been enough to incline him to seek peace in external relations . |
| 24 | He had to look into her eyes because he was so close to her that to look elsewhere would have been blatant rudeness . |
| 25 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 26 | But tonight would have been different . |
| 27 | If they possibly could , they avoided contact ; their shots went wide — high I think they already would have been . |
| 28 | My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’ |
| 29 | The report that hon. Members receive and that the public pick up outside would have been looked at from the point of view of the client , the promoter and the public interest . |
| 30 | The food these suburban Texans threw away would have been enough to feed the whole of Latin America . |