Example sentences of "that would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she married quite young then , cos that 'd have been |
| 2 | I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK . |
| 3 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 4 | And that would 've been a little unwieldy , would n't it ? |
| 5 | That would 've been |
| 6 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 7 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 8 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 9 | Yeah , because that would 've been ideal . |
| 10 | That would 've been good . |
| 11 | Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair . |
| 12 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 13 | That would have been Salisbury plain , |
| 14 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 15 | To know the answer to that would have been really interesting . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't cross them out — that would have been too much like defacing the book , ’ he says . |
| 17 | According to Edward Altman , that would have been enough to compensate for an annual default rate of 5–6% — around three times actual default rates — so the returns looked delicious . |
| 18 | Of course , much of that would have been done in his lectures , to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix . |
| 19 | He preferred more ambiguity and liked the idea of one or other of them sleepwalking accidentally into the other 's room ; that would have been less crude than prior agreements . |
| 20 | Not out of the cottage — that would have been pointless , because Doyle barred the way — but back into the kitchen . |
| 21 | I could have punished my whoremonger with some disgusting venereal complaint , but that would have been far too simple . |
| 22 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | I was told by a Milanese , with a wry smile , that it was as well the prophet had not heard of smog , or that would have been included as well . |
| 25 | This was done without the knowledge of Napoleon III , who was astonished by the amount and , interestingly , remarked that ‘ half of that would have been more than enough ’ . |
| 26 | That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | that would have been . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose that would have been regarded as subversive by some governments in the bad old days , ’ he said . |