Example sentences of "[adv] would [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 2 | Any one of a very large number of ways of throwing rocks together would be labelled a mountain , and might have been named Mont Blanc . |
| 3 | The dominant families of the other papers had what now would be called a low profile too . |
| 4 | The Earl of Bothwell , nephew of the earl who had done James 's mother so much harm , was what today would be called a tearaway : he revelled in leading Border raids , once broke into the Edinburgh Tolbooth to free one of his men from custody , and was widely believed to hold the office of chief warlock to various covens of witches . |
| 5 | We knew that the one way to get the world 's two greatest detectives to come here would be to stage a mysterious disappearance . |
| 6 | The first move of a Government committed to re-establishing full employment comprehensively would be to initiate a rolling programme of moving Civil Service jobs from areas of high employment , mainly in the South , to those of high unemployment , predominantly in the North . |
| 7 | A way forward would be to adopt a test of reasonableness or rational basis . |
| 8 | He would sometimes be slapped with a hand on the bottom , and very occasionally would be given a clip around the ear by Mr Roberts . |
| 9 | He would sometimes be slapped with a hand on the bottom , and very occasionally would be given a clip around the ear by Mr Roberts . |