Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you 'd be doubling that would n't you ? |
| 2 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 3 | I I would have put the apostrophe between the l and the s , but erm , I 'd be prepared to , I 'd be persuaded that it was n't crystal clear . |
| 4 | The nearest to an exact listing would be to record that he was married to Lois Neilsen in 1926 ; to Virginia Ruth Rogers in 1935 ( after a possibly illegal ceremony in Mexico the previous year ) ; to Illeana Shuvalova in 1938 ; to Ruth Rogers again in 1941 ; and to Ida Kitaeva Raphael , who survived him , in 1946 . |
| 5 | How easy it would be to confess that the baby had survived ; that he had , according to Sir Philip Debrace , grown into a strong , good-looking boy . |
| 6 | It made him seem altogether too human , and the safest thing for her to do would be to remember that this man was very nearly the devil incarnate . |
| 7 | If we do so we may deny our pain , it would be to pretend that all is well , and that would mean to deny the biblical faith . |
| 8 | It would be noted that in fact one of these plans is for a 20-bed unit consisting of 2 10-bed sections . |
| 9 | A possible way of arguing against a causal theory of justification would be to claim that we have no guarantee that there is only one way in which beliefs come to be justified , and in particular no real reason for supposing that any acceptable way must somehow be causal , so that all justified beliefs that p must be caused by relevant facts . |
| 10 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 11 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 12 | To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat . |
| 13 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 14 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 15 | One would be to say that the predicating of names like ‘ white ’ does not involve classification ( taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name ) . |
| 16 | Another would be to say that whereas some classes ( for example , the class ‘ metal ’ ) are grounded on resemblance in some respect , others ( for example , the class ‘ sensation of white ’ ) are not grounded on resemblance at all . |
| 17 | Another way of putting this would be to say that the perspectival appearance of an object at a point of view is a function of the object 's real figure , its inclination relative to the point of view , and its distance from the point of view , and is a function of nothing else . |
| 18 | It makes no more sense to say that the perspectival appearance is true ( or false ) of the object than it would be to say that the size of the angle of a triangle is true ( or false ) of the other two angles , which determine its size . |
| 19 | One way of expressing this point would be to say that my body as it is for me is sensitive , whereas my body in the midst of the world is sensible ( meaning , to be sensed or perceived ) . |
| 20 | A simpler way of describing its position would be to say that it is part of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian regions . |
| 21 | Another approach would be to say that it is I , not some part of me called ‘ reason ’ , which sees that this is how the system of my impulses should be organized . |
| 22 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 23 | A second argument which Gordon might use would be to say that the content of the bracket constituting the term furnished tenancy or employee or assault should , itself , be for the relative opinion of the tribunal . |
| 24 | Another way of putting this would be to say that scientific culture was remarkably wide . |
| 25 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 26 | I guess my inclination would be to say that there 's only one of those in which we are actually doing the proof . |
| 27 | A reasonable , and perhaps the only plausible , response would be to say that to understand an utterance is to decode or calculate all that might reasonably have been meant by the speaker of the utterance ( cf. |
| 28 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 29 | The judges would , in effect , be saying that they were not willing to sanction the disbarment of a barrister pursuant to unfair procedures , and would be insisting that the matter should be handled again more appropriately . |
| 30 | The planning officer said they would be insisting that roller shutters should be painted according to the livery of the shop , particularly in conservation areas . |