Example sentences of "that would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have been impossible for the Shah . |
| 2 | She would have liked to stay longer , but realised that would have been greedy . |
| 3 | Yeah , and then you had three and then you made one and to there , and that would have been right . |
| 4 | My inclination was to decline , but as that would have been discourteous in the extreme to Wilson , for whom I then had enormous respect , I agreed to see him . |
| 5 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 6 | Twenty-one years ago that would have been inconceivable . |
| 7 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 8 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 9 | That would have been cruel comfort . ’ |
| 10 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 11 | ‘ That would have been nice if the customs had asked me to open it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm glad he was n't being a hero , that would have been stupid , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Not out of the cottage — that would have been pointless , because Doyle barred the way — but back into the kitchen . |
| 14 | That would have been normal , surely ; more normal than this chill she felt . |
| 15 | ‘ To have blown them after all that would have been awful . ’ |
| 16 | I mean it could have been different it could have got out of control and then everybody would have turned and pointed a finger and that would have been awful . |
| 17 | I do n't think that would have been possible if our marriage were not such an ‘ equal terms ’ partnership' . |
| 18 | ( Though that would have been late , late , late . ) |
| 19 | That would have been good for Britain , for employment , for British Airways , for British Aerospace and for Rolls-Royce . |
| 20 | Perhaps you could play along and pretend they were you know that would have been good you could pretend that you were sort of erm I I erm er er Christie Brinkley . |
| 21 | In his second day of evidence before Sheriff Brian Lockhart , he said that that would have been good management . |
| 22 | That would have been good interesting and funny . |
| 23 | ‘ That would have been easy . ’ |
| 24 | In the sense that myself and another doctor , I think two doctors have to agree that the patient is terminal , and I think that would have been likely ; as a matter of fact , I knew f no one who felt we should push ahead , and he had four or five physicians in different roles dealing with him , so he would have fulfilled the definition of being terminal . |
| 25 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 26 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking in his Witney Constituency , says that would have been disastrous . |
| 27 | That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . ) |
| 28 | Now that would have been interesting . |
| 29 | That would have been handy would n't it ? |
| 30 | Now I hardly think that would have been acceptable , either to the people of Britain , let alone to the mining areas , or to some of those |