Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 2 | Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies . |
| 3 | The distribution of these consonants would be rather limited , but the main problem would be fitting them into the pattern of syllable structure . |
| 4 | It was possible , however that from a licensed dealer they would be getting nothing of the kind . |
| 5 | The best precaution would be to deposit them with the bank . |
| 6 | Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary . |
| 7 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 8 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 9 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 10 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 11 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 13 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 14 | ‘ If I was to insult the contestants I would be shooting myself in the foot . |
| 15 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 16 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |
| 17 | ‘ That would be treating them with the contempt with which they were given . ’ |
| 18 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 19 | now if we 've got a tap handy probably the best thing would be to run it under the cold tap and that hopefully would take away any dirt and extra bits and pieces that are stuck around it . |
| 20 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
| 21 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
| 22 | My aim would be to fit myself into the game unobtrusively … |
| 23 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |