Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , I would n't be bankrupt but I would be taking out a second mortgage on the house . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 3 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 4 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 5 | Forbidding though the prospect may be , he needs another talking shop — a commission whose function would be to draw up a definitive Russian constitution that could then be entrenched against the amending whims of the Congress . |
| 6 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 7 | In a cautiously worded announcement on May 29 Afewerki said that the EPLF would be setting up a provisional administration for Eritrea , but that this did not constitute a unilateral declaration of independence . |
| 8 | Secretary of State for giving way , but when he made his proni provisional announcement on the er on the total S S A for Wales , was he aware that the er the various er salary review bodies would be bringing in a er a recommendation which was almost twice the current rate of inflation ? |
| 9 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 10 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 11 | The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings . |
| 12 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 13 | The commission hopes that peer-group pressure would persuade member states to comply with the council 's rulings on their budgetary plans , which would be taken on a majority vote . |
| 14 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 16 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If there were Business Olympics , Britain would be winning quite a few gold medals . ’ |
| 18 | The hire car would be running up a heavy bill , but apart from the advance that he 'd had to hand over Forester had no intention of paying it . |
| 19 | Deciding now to take up the practice of law again , Herbert thought that the best opening would be to build up a country practice . |
| 20 | All this evidence only goes to show how easy it would be to build up a completely distorted picture of the life of Massalia in the Hellenistic period . |
| 21 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |