Example sentences of "would [be] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children .
2 So it is good to have these idiomatic recordings to remind us of just how good a pianist he was : in both the Concerto and the Rhapsody , rock-solid technique serves real musicality , and this CD would be worth acquiring on the strength of the Gershwin works alone .
3 He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client .
4 She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters .
5 It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack . ’
6 It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack .
7 That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up .
8 Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father .
9 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an antique shop ?
10 It would be like knitting in the middle of a giant car park .
11 ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’
12 My passion is for its numerous Romanesque churches , in most cases humbly proportioned but elevated into unique works of art by the richness of their exquisitely-sculpted decoration ; to go to Poitou/Saintonge and not look at any of its churches would be like going to an African game reserve and ignoring the animals .
13 He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh .
14 " Has it ever struck you , Pinkie , what it would be like to belong to a class of objects which gets more valuable as it gets older ?
15 As Rain passed Tavett 's desk he cupped his face in his hands and moaned for her benefit , saying : ‘ Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in an ordinary office instead of a newspaper where every kind of freak feels entitled to barge in and collar you ? ’
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