Example sentences of "[verb] would [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you would need would be to find a nearby black hole . |
| 2 | At the second of these meetings Attlee stressed that the strategic arguments about the Middle East were not valid because no country would be willing to grant bases for military action , and all Britain would achieve would be to pose a needless and pointless threat to the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | The best it could do would be to permit a small degree of enclave development , which only reproduced First World-Third World exploitation within the Third World . |
| 4 | The smallest thing you could do would be to help a poor injured man towards the comfort of an inn ! ’ |
| 5 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 6 | Getting their hands on their own trains might seem attractive , but any manager tempted would be taking a big risk . |