Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I 'd be a nervous wreck , but I felt very eager and excited to get out there , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I 'd be a real loss |
| 3 | Before when Keith left I 'd be a total wreck . |
| 4 | I 'd be a laughing stock ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'd be a complete idiot if I thought that I could go through life and not bounce into the occasional person who did n't have my welfare at heart , and I 'm no idiot . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd be a good servant to the lady Anne . ’ |
| 7 | People tell me that if I was a bit taller , I 'd be a dead ringer for that Malcolm Allison geezer . |
| 8 | I 'd be a Special Constable before you could say Fuzz . |
| 9 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 10 | I 'm not hoping for a shell-casing , you know , but if he 'd just get a fucking nose-bleed or something , I 'd be a happy man . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd have found some boring ordinary job and paid off the cops and you 'd have your new crystal and I 'd never have met Marco and his pals and I 'd be a happier woman today . |
| 12 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 13 | ‘ But there is no way I would be a professional model , its too exhausting . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would be a rich man if I could . |
| 15 | ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up . |
| 16 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 17 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 18 | Your Royal Highness , Mr Chairman , Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen , I am not absolutely sure whether this microphone system will work if I stand what I do know is , however , that I would be a larger target for you and under the circumstance I will , if I may remain seated . |
| 19 | Well , that 's true , of course , but after all , I would be a different person if I had n't had that sort of childhood . |
| 20 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 21 | He received one notable fillip when , at the 10th , an elderly couple exhorted him with the idea that his would be a fine win to set alongside Antonio Pinto 's success in the London Marathon . |
| 22 | The implication is some form of written constitution , which would be a major step for the system , though one which has growing support in the form of Charter 88 for example . |
| 23 | Underneath he added ‘ which would be a good title for my next book or for all my work ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Which would be a good thing in some ways . ’ |
| 25 | He says all the signs are it could soon be as bad as last year , which would be a great pity . |
| 26 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 27 | That ‘ strange ’ which would be a lazy gesture in another novelist is indeed strange to the reader , strange as the feline , supremely observed young man himself ; and yet he feels the very muscles and skin-surface of Raskolnikov 's smile — a prelude to the way in which the book 's entire action is simultaneously read about and lived through . |
| 28 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 29 | It seems to me that what we 're talking about here is Harrogate 's land allocation being , not necessarily an I five , but sixty hectares which he agreed was adequate for I five yesterday , plus I suspect another fifty which would be a strategic site . |
| 30 | They were also hoping by these means to avoid causing resentment at infringement of separate national sovereignties which would be a possible result if they enlisted the aid of the British government . |