Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes think that you would be happier working somewhere else ! ’ |
| 2 | I thought we would be lower mid-table in a comparatively comfortable position , but when you get 15 little things and you lump them together you get a better idea why we have n't done so well . |
| 3 | But the judge granted a licence after hearing that this year there would be stricter security , and tougher restrictions on the type of music played . |
| 4 | A study of leading businesses shows that a vast majority of British firms believe that if we had a Labour Government there would be slower growth , less investment , higher inflation and worse unemployment . |
| 5 | With a central , unified system of negotiations there would be greater opportunity to reduce the wage ‘ spread ’ between industries , not least because then no bargaining group would be relatively disadvantaged for having settled in advance of the others . |
| 6 | The same analytical method can be adopted in identifying what happened and why it happened in an accident which is entirely operational in character , though in such a case there would be greater dependence upon some of the less precise characteristics of human behaviour in the explanation of why certain things were done . |
| 7 | The Netherlands retained its open policy on drug use but would help other members to combat trafficking , and there would be greater co-operation to stop the illegal movement of guns , ammunition and explosives . |
| 8 | Within those areas covered by the rational basis part of the test there would be greater certainty . |
| 9 | In other words , there would be better growth under Labour . |
| 10 | There would be further set-backs as one lean spell caused the factions to surface again , but now they were truly under way and in due course their supremacy would become complete . |
| 11 | Through the voucher sales component , employees would be able to buy a controlling share in their enterprises ; there would be further voucher issues in 1993 and 1994 ; and voucher sales would in all account for 35 per cent of state enterprises slated for privatization . |
| 12 | Terry Donovan , managing director of Metrologie UK , said there would be further divestments — to be announced in the next few months — of operations which did not fit the company 's corporate focus on hardware solutions . |
| 13 | Rents for state housing were to be increased to market levels , students in higher education were to pay part of their fees , and there would be further privatization of state assets . |
| 14 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 15 | OSF also suggested there would be further endorsement of OSF/1 from some unidentified quarter this week . |
| 16 | If you will permit me to make a suggestion , they would be better meantime with a tutor at home , and a governess for the girls . |
| 17 | Labour 's shadow chancellor John Smith unveils their alternative budget promising everyone earning up to £22,000 a year they would be better Dr Ashok Kumar launched his campaign to retain Langabrugh pledging ‘ I 'm here to Opinion polls show the Tories with a three point Labour say they would scrap the City Technology Colleges if they won power . |
| 18 | The fact was , the Rector had no sense of priorities — he would be happier washing the feet of the poor than ordering a dignified social life such as a woman in Mrs Frere 's position had the right to expect . |
| 19 | It would be quicker walking . |