Example sentences of "would have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the circumstances of 1921 , Michael Joyce would have been ill-advised to seek reconciliation with the new order in Ireland . |
| 2 | The Federation was , in any case , the undisputed representative of the Left at the Universities and the Labour Party would have been ill-advised to disaffiliate it while its opinions were so popular and widely accepted . |
| 3 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 4 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 7 | Phyllisia had seen this girl called Marian , she wanted to be her friend because she was perfect and her father would have been impressed , but when she approached her , Marian snubbed Phyllisia . |
| 8 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |
| 9 | This ‘ de-focussing ’ therefore helps to reveal any real patterns although , of course , it would have been unacceptable in the original table , the function of which was to.provide an accurate record . |
| 10 | For instance , in our example , it would have been unscientific to propose that the troublesome motion of the planet Uranus was such because that was its natural motion . |
| 11 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
| 12 | Their main conclusion is that the earliest occupants of the Klasies River Mouth site ( before 100 000 years ago ) were modern-looking people ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) who would have been ancestral to the indigenous African Negro and Klioisan peoples . |
| 13 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 14 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 15 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 16 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 17 | It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate . |
| 18 | It is therefore significant that this feature is also seen in the Trias of Spain and Morocco , which , according to the most generally accepted plate reconstructions , would have been close to the eastern seaboard of the States . |
| 19 | She would have been close to Alain . |
| 20 | They would have been close at hand my Lord erm I just do n't know , it may be that , I think they were probably in a vehicle also close at hand ready to . |
| 21 | Mind you I suppose it would have been close to the house . |
| 22 | Over the entire period , there were twenty-two cases of under-25 leukaemia , when only eleven would be expected , and in one critical period — from 1964 to 1978 — there had been fifteen cases where six would have been normal . |
| 23 | The complete plan , however , should have a surrounding portico or ambulatory , as would have been normal in temples of this type . |
| 24 | That would have been normal , surely ; more normal than this chill she felt . |
| 25 | Duns Scotus is a major figure for the ecumenical movement in Scotland and that fact was recognised when the service took place at an evening prayer meeting attended by many non-Catholics , rather than during mass , as would have been normal . |
| 26 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 27 | Replacing either of them — and they ran the series as a sort of family business the Marks and Spencer of movie comedy — would have been professional suicide . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The process is similar to oral tradition , in which good descriptions , tales , or verses are preserved and repeated ; indeed the audience or reader would have been disappointed if some of the famous and much loved descriptions were not included . |
| 30 | Anyone expecting a story about inflight cyclic stick failure would have been disappointed , however : the piece concerned a helicopter pilot named Paul who had undergone a sex-change operation and is now known as Paula . |