Example sentences of "[pron] would be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I , I mean I , I , I w I could n't say that I would be happy being in the house all the time . |
2 | Can I just reassure Mr that if actually we were not , er , if we were discussing an increase in members allowances then I would be fair square with him . |
3 | Someone would be sweating steam in their sleep , someone 's baby would be face down on her pillow ; Belle 's grandmother knew what was wrong without being told and always righted it if it could be done . |
4 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
5 | If we win against both Spain and Japan that could give us a shot against South Africa in the quarter-finals , which would be tremendous news for Scottish rugby back home ’ , said Rutherford . |
6 | He is in no doubt about the reasons : ‘ Lack of marketing awareness , a lack of technological awareness , and a lack of financial control which would be second nature in most industries . ’ |
7 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
8 | Optimistic investors hope that America 's economic growth is picking up , which would be good news for company profits . |
9 | ‘ With equipment like this , the legal limit of exhaust emissions could be further reduced which would be good news for the environment , ’ said Dr Coles , of Swansea University . |
10 | It 's it 's also the main area of housing demand , it 's also the main area where employers want to locate around around North Yorkshire , and I think most importantly , if its development needs are not met , these can wo n't be satisfactorily diverted elsewhere , they will continue unresolved which would be continual pressure on the edge of the urban area , and on on the greenbelt , and if that holds the effect would of course be that the tight greenbelt would mean that economic growth in the county would be frustrated , because York is the main centre where employment growth is concentrated , and I would think , I would consider that that solution of a tight greenbelt plus not making sufficient provision for development needs elsewhere in York would be contrary to P P G three paragraph three , which I 'm sure you 're aware of . |
11 | After an interlude , the man who would be sage returns with an acoustic guitar and offers chestnuts like ‘ Passionate Friends ’ for perusal . |
12 | Anglo-Saxon law recognized that a peasant who prospered became a thegn and the thegns were a wide class including folk who would be called knights and folk who would be leading barons after the Conquest . |
13 | An " heir " indeed , Miss Gristy , yes , an heir to base lies and fornication , and if I had my way you would be joint heirs to a pile of dry wood too , together with flint , steel and a box of tinder ! " |
14 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
15 | I thought we would be lower mid-table in a comparatively comfortable position , but when you get 15 little things and you lump them together you get a better idea why we have n't done so well . |
16 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
17 | But the BR source warned that there would be environmental objections to the alternative route , which would have to cut across other parts of Kent and marshes in Essex . |
18 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
19 | If I did that , there would be nasty questions from the Bermuda authorities when the sisters discover that the money 's gone . ’ |
20 | There would be dark fortresses in that world as well , and the skies would be forever heavy and lit to a reddish glow with the incantations and the dark sorcery that would rise like a miasma from the dark citadels … |
21 | There would be loud applause for the suggestion from Labour Back Benchers , but he has my sympathy . |
22 | It is unlikely that there would be strong support for interim note disclosure equivalent to that in annual accounts . |
23 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
24 | Throughout March and April the newspapers carried a plethora of stories suggesting either that there would be a further challenge to Mrs Thatcher when the next leadership election fell due in November , or that there would be strong pressure on her to announce her retirement before then . |
25 | After they have gone there would be financial chaos with severely or perhaps mortally wounded airlines remaining at the City — it might take years for a network of routes to be soundly re-established . |
26 | There would be 27 constituencies for Indians , one for Rotumans and five for other races . |
27 | Demand was thus satisfied for HE as a whole , although clearly there would be unsatisfied demand for particular courses or institutions . |
28 | Erm I think there would be environmental problems , I think there would be major problems of sustainability because quite clearly , er scale migration into North Yorkshire would be accompanied in significant past by back out er of North Yorkshire , particularly to Cleveland er and to West Yorkshire . |
29 | Obviously , since the whole economy was engaged in this process there could not be , according To Bukharin , a wholly unbalanced growth , even though there would be certain imbalances as a result of growth taking place in different sectors at somewhat different rates . |
30 | ‘ Without heroin , there would be real hardship in this area . ’ |