Sentence examples for role would have been from inspiring English sources

(Casting a Mexican actor in the role would have been too forward-thinking).

A generation earlier, she says, her role would have been decided.

(The quadruplicated genes that failed to find a useful role would have been shed from the genome).

The day-to day role would have been fine, but I frequently found myself expected to do higher grade work.

If the Americans had made Cilla (and why would they?), the title role would have been taken by some nubile aspiring screen goddess.

Niki Lauda, Mercedes' non-executive chairman, had tried to convince Brawn to stay on but it is likely his role would have been diminished.

To hear him interpret his heldentenor roles would have been truly remarkable.

A decade ago, they would have professed concern for the environment but when the chips were down people in green roles would have been shown the door.

That makes sense: he is a keyboardist and conductor, and for most of the music in these concerts, those roles would have been anachronistic.

In Shakespeare's time, many of the female roles would have been played by boys, but it seems only right that in an era of extended life expectancy and longer working lives actors get a chance to play roles to which they can bring their full experience – providing, of course, that they have the necessary stamina to play a full schedule of performances in physically and vocally demanding parts.

Maybe, if he had done this, stereotypical male/female roles would have been obliterated by now.