Example sentences of "would be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 2 | She 'd be expecting a full report on Pierremont House and the dear little village , so quiet , so tasteful . |
| 3 | We 'd be fightin' a never-ending rearguard battle with those guys . |
| 4 | ‘ If you were going to use this , ’ Court observed , ‘ we 'd be having a different sort of conversation . ’ |
| 5 | If Vadinamia had the Fraxillian cylinder , it looked like I 'd be making a safe and secure pick-up . |
| 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 | One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds . |
| 8 | On the other hand , they would have been inspired by the promise that they , as loyal adherents of the Messiah , would be granted a unique recompense for their fidelity and for any suffering they had incurred . |
| 9 | The EFTA countries , the richest countries in Europe as a group , would be granted a privileged relationship in return for a full share in the burden of supporting the economic development of Eastern and Southern Europe . |
| 10 | Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One possible remedy would be to employ a time-varying parameter technique in estimation as in Browne and McNellis ( 1990 ) . |
| 13 | This would be to substitute a judicial view as to , for example , the most appropriate way in which to allocate aid , or to disburse licences , for that of the public body . |
| 14 | He also declared he would be taking a two- month break from the game , as has Ian Woosnam . |
| 15 | Getting their hands on their own trains might seem attractive , but any manager tempted would be taking a big risk . |
| 16 | The Zimbabwean Defence Minister , Moven Mahachi , reportedly announced in Harare on Sept. 7 that Zimbabwe would be sending a small number of military officers to Rwanda to join peace monitors invited by the UN and the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) . |
| 17 | One possibility would be to evolve a qualified defence of killing under extreme emotional disturbance , following the lead of the Model Penal Code . |
| 18 | In November 1989 it was announced that the Falkland Islands Company ( now owned by Anglo United , a UK-based mining and fuel distribution group which had taken over Coalite , the Falkland Islands Company 's existing owner , in August 1989 ) would be appointing a chief executive who would be based for the first time on the islands themselves . |
| 19 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 20 | For example a useful practical derived test of the properties of leather in shoes would be to flex a real shoe in a test machine to determine the relation between loads and displacements relevant to the wearer . |
| 21 | He would be sacrificing a rich industrial world , a bastion of the human Imperium . |
| 22 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 23 | The statistic would be called a five-quarter centred moving average . |
| 24 | In other time management systems this sort of thing would be called a key results area , erm , you know , it , it 's that kind of thing . |
| 25 | The latter would be called a subjective budget and would list items in headings such as buildings , staff , rent , rates , capitation , in terms of the total spent in each category , rather than show how part of each category related to a particular programme . |
| 26 | The dominant families of the other papers had what now would be called a low profile too . |
| 27 | When it was clear that Henry was outraged and in a mood for immediate retaliatory action , James decided on what in current jargon would be called a pre-emptive strike . |
| 28 | This suggests that a good test would be to take a potent scientific innovation and compare its reception in Protestant and Catholic communities . |
| 29 | A delighted Mr Guest said after the hearing at the Justiciary Appeal Court that in addition to the expenses of the case , he would be seeking a five-figure sum in damages . |
| 30 | I 'm sure once people realise what smashing dogs they are , lots more Greyhounds would be assured a happy retirement — instead of being abandoned , exported or used for experimentation . |