Example sentences of "[noun sg] would be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous . |
| 2 | your top speed would be two hundred and seventy two miles an hour ! |
| 3 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 4 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 5 | If , as was entirely possible , he found nothing and Vic turned out to be an innocent eccentric , this action would be inexcusable . |
| 6 | Coun Brady said his action would be similar to that taken after MP Douglas Fairbairn 's outburst at the weekend and said the committee disassociated itself with the remarks . |
| 7 | However to take no action would be worse than to risk insulting the dead . |
| 8 | When you are experiencing a certain kind of bite which you are finding difficult to hit , try to relate the bite with what you have seen the chub doing or ; your close season excursions , then decide from there what course of action would be best to hit the fish . |
| 9 | But when the Blands ' doctor approached the Sheffield Coroner about disconnecting the tube he said such action would be unlawful . |
| 10 | For , according to Moore , to say that an action would be right is to say that the total results of doing it would be at least as good as would be those of doing any alternative . |
| 11 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 12 | Its initial tasks , however , were to ensure that the pioneering work already carried out by the NAS&FU in organising continental branches was consolidated into indigenous unions and to develop European solidarity to a point at which common strike action would be feasible . |
| 13 | ( If the Commons passed the bill for a second time , the action would be unprecedented and , it was widely argued , could cause a constitutional impasse . ) |
| 14 | If the authority can show that a lack of sufficiently qualified staff is due to overall financial problems , then an action would be unlikely to succeed . |
| 15 | We will look later at whether this sort of action would be sufficient to answer the question of legal status of the e-mail ‘ record ’ and how this extraction process would need to be very clearly structured and closely managed to allow such routine deletion . |
| 16 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 17 | If the purpose is to interrupt an apparent contract and the secondary action would be likely to achieve that purpose , then the secondary action should be legitimate even if no such contract exists in fact . |
| 18 | I heard your most disgusting talk at the EAST and west Association ( PROPAGANDA ASSOCIATION would be better ) . |
| 19 | However the Village Association would be willing to subsidise it should other arrangements be made to continue . |
| 20 | If your group or association would be interested in a tour based around any of the events listed opposite , please tick the coupon appropriately . |
| 21 | Such a putative immunosuppressive effect of L1 might accord with the intestinal distribution seen of the L1 + eosinophils : they are localised mainly in the lamina propria where a downregulating effect on lymphocyte proliferation would be beneficial to dampen immune responses to food antigens , but they are virtually absent beneath the follicle associated epithelium of Peyer 's patches where adequate immunostimulation to potentially pathogenic antigens is desirable . |
| 22 | If asked , at this stage , each side would be likely to reply that its standard conditions governed the transaction . |
| 23 | Each side would be 690 miles long — about the distance from London to Inverness , or Washington to Atlanta . |
| 24 | A true separatist movement on the French side would be bad indeed for the local economy . |
| 25 | To envisage any modern development at all on the north side would be catastrophic , having regard to the very special properties which there exist , qualities which contribute , undoubtedly , to the historic setting of York . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh no , you could n't do it that way otherwise the horse would be certain to win . ’ |
| 27 | No , he would lose time rather than gain it , and a horse would be little help to him , for he 'd have to go downstream to the ford . |
| 28 | Potentially more poignant and serious is the rhyme lef/gref , " desired , loved " / " grief " ; a linkage of glee , licence and distress that we find again shortly afterwards , with a different but phonetically similar word , " " leve " " , " leave " , " licence " , and the verb " " greve " " , " grieve " , where Wilekin takes the risk of declaring himself : ( " Now that I have won leave for me to cause myself grief would be wrong . " ) |
| 29 | Gordon Brown also promised Labour would be good news for big employers … like the nearby Rover plant in Cowley . |
| 30 | Coleridge and Southey optimistically calculated that two or three hours daily labour would be all that was required , and that the remaining time could be given up to ‘ study , liberal discussions , and the education of their children ’ . |