Example sentences of "would [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you 'd rather be a big fish in a very small pool , that 's up to you , I suppose . |
| 2 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 3 | I 'd sooner be a Red Indian any day ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd sooner be a crisp than survive . |
| 5 | I I mean if these petitions were n't in it 'd just be a square room . |
| 6 | If Reg Butler had n't looked beyond the horizon , he 'd still be a one-pitch loser down the dogs . |
| 7 | I 'd still be a lowly civil servant if I had n't had my castle . ’ |
| 8 | It 'd probably be a good studio amp as it 's got quite a rich sound , albeit at low volumes . |
| 9 | I 'd probably be a better match . |
| 10 | It is worth remembering here that space time as seen from free fall would locally be a Minkowski space . |
| 11 | With all the evil there is , there is no man but would rather be a free agent , than a mere machine without the evil ; and what is best for each individual , must be best for the whole . |
| 12 | One extreme assumption was that demand would mirror the demographic decline , while at the other extreme there would only be a shallow decline in demand due to increases in both the proportions of school leavers wanting to advance their education and in the number of mature entrants . |
| 13 | As it would only be a temporary name we felt it did n't really matter all that much what we should call ourselves |
| 14 | Language itself , he said , would cease to function as it had always functioned , it would only be a strange dead thing , smouldering perhaps , but burnt out , no longer conveying any meaning . |
| 15 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 16 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 17 | While I was waiting in the car ( I thought the men would only be a few moments ) , Alan suddenly appeared at the window . |
| 18 | Recycled Paper : Already being used to produce materials for mulching , it would only be a short step to make it an ingredient in composts . |
| 19 | Stephen would have preferred to walk back across the Vale of Allen and Foinmen 's Plain but he had no torch and tonight there would only be a thin , new moon . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best part of the 10 day tournament for brothers Cliff and Butch Buchholz , who run the Key Biscayne event , was the decision by Lipton to remain as title sponsors after all , having originally said they would only be a secondary supporter in future years . |
| 21 | That in itself would only be a further illustration of the need for an innovative , coherent plan . |
| 22 | She said it would only be a little party : herself and Freddie , one of her flat mates , called Pauline — the other happened to be away — and Pauline 's boyfriend . |
| 23 | Otherwise you could be changing status now only to change back again very shortly and it is not worth the upheaval for what would only be a marginal difference . ’ |
| 24 | This is a play for two characters , Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , the World War One poets , and it would obviously be a good thing to read some of their poetry as a background to performing this piece . |
| 25 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Which would obviously be a necessary change to make if it was going to relieve the western bypass . |
| 27 | Usually it is the weak , undersized and malformed beasts that are weeded out , not the finest , which would obviously be a selfdefeating exercise . |
| 28 | He left the room , smoothing his hair back with that gesture that was a habit with him , as though letting his hair down would literally be a bad thing . |
| 29 | This would perhaps be a laudable idea if it were possible of accomplishment . |
| 30 | In a television interview in late December 1985 the British Prime Minister , Thatcher , suggested that a revival of the Carrington initiative for international guarantees for Afghanistan 's neutral status ‘ would perhaps be a possible way forward that might be pursued again ’ . |