Example sentences of "would [adv] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd probably be the first person to respond if someone wrote in and said ‘ everybody with short hair and who conforms should be banned from gigs ’ which is basically what you wrote , only vice versa . |
| 2 | You 'd probably be the first person to respond if someone wrote in and said ‘ everybody with short hair and who conforms should be banned from gigs ’ which is basically what you wrote , only vice versa . |
| 3 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 4 | There was nothing illegal in this and , indeed , if Joyce 's story of having been born in County Galway were accepted , he would merely be the returning exile . |
| 5 | cock up in , you know in Britain and it would just be the laughing stock , I mean you ca n't do that , you ca n't shelter everybody |
| 6 | Or do you realise you would just be the same person , two stone lighter ? ) |
| 7 | At a meeting in Bath ( UK ) on Sept. 5 , EC Economy and Finance Ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed their agreement of Aug. 28 that a change in the present structure of central rates " would not be the appropriate response to the current tensions in the EMS " , declared that they stood ready to intervene to counter tensions in the exchange markets , and also welcomed the fact that the Bundesbank ( the German central bank ) in present circumstances had no intention to increase German interest rates . |
| 8 | If Tim were guilty and told her so , he would not be the first person who had admitted a crime to a journalist . |
| 9 | ‘ If I was coming home tired , ’ said Whatham , ‘ a play by a dissident Czech playwright would not be the first programme I would turn on . |
| 10 | A Family Division lawyer remarked last night : ‘ The Duke of York would not be the first husband to be enraged by a photograph of a man lying on top of his wife . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 12 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 13 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 14 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 15 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 16 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 17 | If the proposals for electoral reform across the European union had occurred , this debate would not be taking place , boundaries would not be the relevant issue and a common electoral system would mean that the citizens of the European community could be properly represented as a whole . |
| 18 | He had known that the death of William Egan would not be the only death . |
| 19 | He was already aware of the possibility of situations in which approval would not be the automatic outcome of such visits , and indeed the CNAA had already , as a result of institutional visits , imposed stern conditions to be met in some instances if approval was to be continued . |
| 20 | But this would not be the ordinary way . |
| 21 | But this would not be the cheapest option . |
| 22 | It would not be the main top , but a consolation prize . |
| 23 | It would not be the national team if there were not a conundrum somewhere and Roxburgh will resist any clamour for the Jess generation to stage a youthful revolution . |
| 24 | A society of extreme altruists , each devoting most of his attention to the welfare of others , would not be the ideal community it might seem ; since each would be poor in self-awareness , he would be still less aware of the actual needs of those he was trying to benefit . |
| 25 | Rossendale Group 's chairperson Kate Conbay-Greenwood said she ‘ realised that this would not be the easiest area of Amnesty 's work to publicise , but that should n't deter us from truing to raise awareness ( of Jehovah 's Witnesses in Greece ) . ’ |
| 26 | Without these two crucial procedures Champagne would not be the sophisticated product it is today , yet we can not trace the precise date when they first occurred , nor identify any particular person responsible for their innovation . |
| 27 | Without the relational property of being on the mat at a particular time the cat would not be the ontological individual it is . |
| 28 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 29 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 30 | The concentration of X free in solution would still be the same inside and outside , but X would accumulate inside in the bound form . |