Example sentences of "would [adv] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather be a slave in comfort than endure those conditions of freedom . |
| 2 | I 'd rather be a rat than a Molesworth . |
| 3 | I 'd rather be a rat and his wife than be April or a doctor . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd rather be a street sweeper . ’ |
| 5 | But he 'd rather be an Ibrox sub than a top team star with any side south of the border . |
| 6 | You 'd only be a liability . |
| 7 | I remember coming home and discussing with my wife that another friend that it 'd only be a couple of weeks and we 'd be back to work . |
| 8 | ‘ I assume it 'd only be a matter of months before the divorce procedure was set in motion ? ’ |
| 9 | Otherwise there 'd already be a truce , and we 'd be saved from this mess . ’ |
| 10 | After that I found that if I iver was in trouble far from home there 'd always be a Sligo man somewhere to help me . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd always be a sepia photograph |
| 12 | If you had to learn every time you could n't spot patterns you 'd never you 'd never be able to play football cos you 'd be you 'd always be a learner would n't you . |
| 13 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 14 | So if she 's still worth under a hundred and fifty thousand pounds there 'd still be no tax on her death either . |
| 15 | But I 'd still be a bit wary of taking a risk like that . |
| 16 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 17 | This was a visit arranged before John Patten knew whether he 'd still be an MP , never mind Secretary of State of Education . |
| 18 | If rugby was played each way , I 'd probably be a household name by now . |
| 19 | They 'd probably be a lot cheaper too . |
| 20 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 21 | She 'd simply be a material witness of some kind who was n't well enough to be interviewed . |
| 22 | Had he really only taken her on because he fancied her and thought she 'd never be a threat to his position ? |
| 23 | After an hour I realized that if I did n't go after her , I 'd never be a man . ’ |
| 24 | He said , ‘ You 'd never be a nuisance to anyone . |
| 25 | She was n't tall and she was slightly heavy , but she had a pleasing face with soft eyes ; perhaps she 'd never be a beauty , but age would never make her ugly either . |
| 26 | ‘ There 'd never be a fear of that , ’ she said with feeling . |
| 27 | So what I 'm saying is that although there will be an overspend , it should n't be massive cos the overspend would effectively be the hump right at the beginning of the year . |
| 28 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 29 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |
| 30 | In Five go to Mystery Moor , George ( ‘ Georgina by rights ’ says the explanatory blurb ) has the bitter experience of jealousy when the group is joined by ‘ another girl … who would rather be a boy , and tries to act like one ! ’ — Henry ( Henrietta ‘ by rights ’ ) . |