Example sentences of "would [not/n't] be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if no fingerprints could be found on it , even if several of the tourists had already discarded or misplaced their own sheets , there would not be too many Americans , surely , who regularly wrote their sevens with a continental bar across the downstroke . |
| 2 | It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that the face of financial reporting in this country has already been transformed . |
| 3 | Frye is writing here as if it were possible to distinguish the interests of one self sharply from those of another , and as if , were the effects of male domination to be undone , it would not be too much of a problem for the self to know what its interests were . |
| 4 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 5 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 6 | There would not be so many lonely people in our land . |
| 7 | There would not be very much time . |
| 8 | They said they would n't be up this week they 've |
| 9 | There was nothing in my background to suggest I would n't be just another East End kid . ’ |
| 10 | I knew it would n't be here this week you know I mean if they 've told her there 's another three to four weeks it 's unlikely that it was gon na be last weekend . |
| 11 | One here and pray he would n't be yet another scientist who needed replacing , and one in the West . |
| 12 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 13 | ‘ If this film had already been made there would n't be so much confusion about what the Maastricht Treaty is and what it means to Britain , ’ said one of the film 's producers , as Mr Brandreth rehearsed his lines in front of the European Parliament in Brussels . |
| 14 | Then it would n't be so much of a shock to you , either ! |
| 15 | Would n't be so much fun then would it ? |
| 16 | So there would n't be so much going out actually ? |
| 17 | There were there would n't be very many before the wirst First World War . |
| 18 | Because there would n't be very much atmosphere |
| 19 | ‘ If it would n't be too much trouble . ’ |
| 20 | It was Terry Rickards saying that he would like to drop in for a chat with Mr Dalgliesh if it would n't be too much bother and would nine be convenient ? |
| 21 | I mean I could stay if you were , it would n't be too much for me . |
| 22 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |
| 23 | ‘ … if it would n't be too much trouble ’ . |
| 24 | But — I would n't be too much with Monsewer Firth — ‘ |
| 25 | ‘ She thinks I would n't be too much competition for her , ’ she said , ‘ because she thinks you 're not very much in love with me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I was wondering , if it would n't be too much of an imposition , if I might possibly buy you lunch . ’ |
| 27 | She phoned Meg again and told her she was so silly , she 'd made a muddle with the dates of two concerts , and it would be perfectly all right for them to come tonight but only if Meg was absolutely sure it would n't be too much trouble , it was so sweet of her … |
| 28 | And actually if we just counted this to through traffic would n't be too much |
| 29 | There would n't be too many of the S I S people that would be suitable would there ? |
| 30 | Erm , I think if they were more honest and open , I mean like parents and schools and stuff , it would n't be so difficult for people to talk about it , and there would n't be as many , the jokes about it . |