Example sentences of "he would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 2 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 3 | If the director had been gay my guess is that he 'd have been stereotyped . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd have been good there , with his background , but his wishes were respected . |
| 5 | He could n't have done it … he 'd have been frantic with remorse , stayed with her to comfort her , tried to get help . |
| 6 | He 'd have been fucking if there had 've been . |
| 7 | But he 's pretty certain that , without all this hassle , without the music , he 'd have been stuck in prison by now , so he 's thankful for everything which comes his way . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd have been ashamed of me . |
| 9 | In fact he 'd have been happy with a five . |
| 10 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 11 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 12 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 13 | alderman Hussey was mayor of the City in 1758 and he would have been pleased that his idea of bringing a clean water supply to St. Edmund 's and St. Martin 's Parishes was still quite useful almost 170 years later . |
| 14 | ‘ He would have been pleased . ’ |
| 15 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 16 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 17 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 18 | As we can be sure that Howard would have approved of the constructive use of prisoners ' time and energy and training in work habits , so we can probably also assume that he would have been disappointed in and disapproving of the latest trend . |
| 19 | He would have been disappointed . |
| 20 | He would have been proud to know that this was the idea that really made his name for posterity . |
| 21 | He gasped with delight at the sight that met his tired eyes rows and rows of fresh fruit and vegetables that he would have been proud to sell . |
| 22 | If he thought instant bankruptcy would result from such disclosures , he must be no less earnest to become a bankrupt for the just advantage of his creditors than he would have been resolute not to fail by collusion for the purpose of defrauding them . |
| 23 | Belgion , a man who seemed to be equipped with a steam-boiler instead of a body , had criticized a remark of Eliot 's in After Strange Gods , namely that in order to study with thoroughness Hindu and Buddhist thought and the Sanskrit and Pali languages in which they were expounded , he would have been obliged to turn himself into an oriental . |
| 24 | Benhabyles , as chair of the Constitutional Council , should have assumed interim presidential powers in the absence of a Speaker of the National Assembly , but was apparently unwilling to take on this responsibility , under which he would have been obliged to organize presidential elections within 45 days . |
| 25 | The case indicates that the type of benefit which was provided from the property user was the fact that the taxpayer could live there without paying rent and that if the accommodation had not been provided he would have been obliged to hire a house elsewhere and pay rent for the same . |
| 26 | Er , my Lord er I my observations on that issue at this point be that erm it seems to be the defence case that for the purposes of er the defendants avoiding a duty to advise the plaintiffs as to the need for clear financial offers their terms from the bank , Mr was an experienced man of business and er had considerable financial acumen for the purposes of considering er whether under the banks original proposal for finance he would have been successful , they would be trading as a financial disaster . |
| 27 | But the Judge said he was satisfied Brady was unlawfully evicted from his bedsit on Oatlands Road , but he added he was also satisfied that had the landlord gone to court to get him out he would have been successful . |
| 28 | He would have been sorry — a natural feeling for a humane man — to destroy such a creature for no reason ’ ( 1963 : 240 ) . |
| 29 | He would have been delighted with a daughter who looked like that . |
| 30 | Such a horse may appear to be a rather solitary animal , but if the other horses had been removed in his absence , he would have been upset and uninterested in eating . |