Sentence examples for behaviour would have been from inspiring English sources

To a person living in the mid-eighteenth century, just before the onset of romanticism, such behaviour would have been evidence only of madness.

Manipulating the system, or indeed any unscrupulous behaviour, would have been unthinkable, Zombanakis says, because the system was based not only on the probity of men in bowler hats and pinstripe suits but on something more important still: an unwritten code of conduct inspired entirely by fair play.

Clough's maverick style and erratic behaviour would have been out of place in the corporate era, with power transferring to super-rich players and their manipulative agents, and with the increasing influence of sports science and of new ideas on tactical analysis and fitness.

If initial conditions for the first three years had not been taken into account, the influence of past screening behaviour on actual behaviour would have been overestimated.

She says she works backwards, year by year, from the incident, to see what the perp's "normal behaviour" would have been before they committed the crime.

An evaluation of the nurses' changed behaviour would have been interesting and important, but the methodology used in this intervention was not designed for this purpose.

On the plus side, it could be said that the new spirit of vigilance that attends M Strauss-Kahn's embarrassments has been working its way up from the world of everyday life for some time, and that certain kinds of behaviour that would have been put up with 30 years ago are now beyond the pale.

To have been monitored all the time - which would have put the shopping list in the context of otherwise diligent behaviour - would have been a vast improvement.

In former research socio-economic factors have variable influence on choice behaviour, therefore it would have been very interesting to make conclusions about those items in this setting [ 25- 27].

That's why we've ended up with the astonishing sight of Theresa May condemning officers' behaviour in terms that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.

She has got used to solitude, and agrees that life as an only child may have helped prepare her for it, but she dreams about her husband all the time: "There's always a companion figure, who sometimes is recognisably him, and other times not, but I sort of know it is him, and our behaviour is as it would have been in life.