Example sentences of "would [adv] [be] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would still be reasonable to suspect that someone prepared to borrow money at high rates of interest was likely to be particularly vulnerable , even if there is now little surviving residue of the old suspicion or disapproval of interest-bearing credit on ethical grounds . |
| 2 | The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts , but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs , including small and large carnivores , were warm-blooded , active animals . |
| 3 | It would probably be true to say that most woodwork projects around the house , from making a child 's desk to forming a stud partition wall , involve straight rather than curved cutting of wood . |
| 4 | Indeed , it would probably be true to say that more sub-standard typography has been produced by desktop publishing software during its short lifespan that by traditional methods in the whole of this century ! |
| 5 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 6 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 7 | It would also be comforting to learn that the agency 's analysis was that far ahead . |
| 8 | It would also be wise to assume that by now the Russians know all about this technology and can , when necessary , not only match it but confuse it . |
| 9 | Family construct theory suggests that it would even be wrong to assume that such ‘ good ’ family relationships are wanted by some families which actually rely upon ‘ bad ’ family relationships . |
| 10 | It would surely be over-hasty to argue that a mother , for example , who clearly preferred her showjumpers , or even her collection of books , to her children , was necessarily in the wrong ; she might nonetheless treat her offspring very well . |
| 11 | It would surely be difficult to prove that the terms of the theory were prescribed by political requirements . |
| 12 | We could then say that , for example , ‘ Hungary ’ is phonemically while ‘ hungry ’ is ; it would then be necessary to say that the vowel phoneme in the phonemic representation is not pronounced as a vowel , but instead causes the following consonant to become syllabic . |
| 13 | Of course , if one has the belief one would indeed be prepared to say that it does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life , but that is not what one is saying here and now . |
| 14 | It would however be misleading to say that the United States courts have always utilised the rational basis test . |
| 15 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 16 | Finnis , on behalf of Aquinas , would doubtless be disposed to argue that Kelsen admits and he excludes any content whatever but if the general requirements of justice are indeed so indeterminate as to allow of even contradictory determinations then this objection falls . |
| 17 | It would therefore be foolhardy to argue that those who entered the battle of Holy River under 1025 and Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland under 1031 were necessarily correct . |
| 18 | They would never be able to say that she had accepted their charity . |
| 19 | Because the , you 've no means of , of proving have you that I mean y er the best system would never be able to discover that er your figure of fifteen thousand pounds cash taken selling ice cream was genuine . |
| 20 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 21 | It would certainly be unwise to argue that in this respect there has been any fundamental change in personnel practices in recent years . |
| 22 | In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area . |