Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point here is not merely that full employment creates a scarcity of labour and so automatically puts up its price , not such that the unions negotiating with already willing and , indeed , anxious buyers would remain relatively passive as buyers bid against one another . |
| 2 | So um it also means that a lot of activities which we would regard as pleasurable as adults y'know sort of intimacy , affection , sexuality . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON 'S Skerne Park estate has gained a reputation which many residents would describe as unfair as one of the less desirable parts of the town . |
| 4 | Georgia-based advertising agency Space Marketing had earlier announced plans for inflatable space billboards , 2 kilometres long and 1 kilometre wide , which would appear as large as the full moon . |
| 5 | Clasper was beginning to be seen by his own members for what he really was : a born agitator and troublemaker who was great to have around when plant managements behaved like bastards because he was one too and would give as good as he got in a stand-up fight . |
| 6 | The louder it is , the more distant the object it can detect and the bats produce clicks which , if translated into frequencies that we can hear , would sound as loud as a pneumatic drill . |
| 7 | The distant ‘ woof of a dog or screech of a car engine would sound as intense as a Rachmaninoff concerto in a concert hall . |
| 8 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 9 | Regarding developments on the Pentium chip front , Dr Grove said he expected that Pentium-based machines would become as ubiquitous as the 80486 machines , and that the chip would be offered not only in servers but in desktop machines . |
| 10 | But soon she began to remember how ill he had been , and how frightened he was , frightened that one day his back would become as crooked as his father 's . |
| 11 | The interesting point , however , is that divisions within the student body would become less significant as conditions for all students deteriorated throughout the reform decade and optimism gave way to despair . |
| 12 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 13 | The likelihood was that Japanese resistance would become more ferocious as the battles approached the home islands with heavy casualties being incurred if Japan was invaded . |
| 14 | Experts declared that the main cause of the pollution was nitrogen dioxide ( unlike the smogs in London during the 1950s , which were mainly caused by sulphur dioxide ) and warned that this form of pollution would become more prevalent as road traffic increases . |
| 15 | He would have to wait , and until then he would keep as close as he could to the Russian . |
| 16 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 17 | According to Jehan Pussot 's Mémorial du temps the price of wine varied enormously : it could be sold as cheaply as 5/6d. a queue ( as in 1579 ) if it was almost undrinkable , while on other occasions , the price would reach as high as 126/6d. ( 1587 ) due to its scarcity . |
| 18 | Amaranth Wilikins for lunch , Angela Cartwright and Co. for dinner : Grunte hoped that the one would prove as profitable as the other . |
| 19 | Among the Great and Good , scarcely a voice could be heard supporting a proposal which the BBC 's founding father , Lord Reith , had said would prove as beneficial as dog-racing , smallpox or the bubonic plague . |
| 20 | She never comes because he hangs himself , she has nobody to be nurse to , but her journey — were she to have made it — would prove as nugatory as his . |
| 21 | If she had heard the circumstances of our former meeting , I am very sure she would prove as remorseless as Mrs Pigdon at the Feathers . ’ |
| 22 | It would prove as anti-climactic as Heather must herself have found it . |
| 23 | Spotila , of the State University of New York , reminds us that a white ectothermic dinosaur with a diameter of one metre in a subtropical habitat would have a body temperature ranging from 30.4 to 30.7°C , whereas a black dinosaur 's temperature would rise as high as 38.4°C . |