Example sentences of "would be [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A newspaper campaign to prevent breeding by some of the substandard individuals with whom society is saddled would be much more to the point than vapid maunderings about the welfare of a child who has been endowed with an almost perfect inheritance , and is being given the best possible care ! ’ |
| 2 | There would be much more point in spending the rest of the week working in the library , planning a project of her own . |
| 3 | The effect of the crisis and its resolution through the Luxembourg Compromise was that the future development of the EEC would be much more as an intergovernmental union of independent states . |
| 4 | Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers . |
| 5 | I should think people other people would be much more feel much more competent as well . |
| 6 | And I for what I 'm trying to do I did n't think we 'd be able to afford a stone I thought I thought it would be much more than what Mr 's quoted . |
| 7 | The paradox is , of course , that were this groundwork to be done there would be much less need for additional classroom support in the first place ! |
| 8 | If we did that , there would be much less of a problem and we would not be in such deep water with the European Commission . |
| 9 | But those big percentage reductions are taking place at a point on the network where the southern bypass has already reduced the flows , so th those parts of the network would be much less in need of relief . |
| 10 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 11 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 12 | Someone once said , ‘ If fish could scream , there would be far fewer anglers . ’ |
| 13 | If that were done , there would be far fewer appeals . |
| 14 | Indeed , I heard several times his lordship express the view that without the participation of such a personage , any discussion on the topic of Germany would be little more than an indulgence . |
| 15 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 16 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples . |
| 18 | But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 19 | Given the wide diversity of views within the Council about the nature of economic cooperation , let alone its political implications , it was not surprising that if anything positive was to come from the idea , it would be little more than a minimalist option . |
| 20 | They had no grasp , those apes , of how close they lay to a state where the devouring beasts of Earth 's infancy would be little more than fleas . |
| 21 | In the example given , the damages would be little more than nominal . |
| 22 | It would be better that way because she had someone with her and they ought to talk alone . |
| 23 | Shop-workers ' wages would rise by £50 a year , but there would be 5,000 fewer of them than there are now . |
| 24 | For a 16 colour monitor , there would be four such sequences of bytes in different blocks of memory , each starting from a different base address . |
| 25 | Coleridge and Southey optimistically calculated that two or three hours daily labour would be all that was required , and that the remaining time could be given up to ‘ study , liberal discussions , and the education of their children ’ . |
| 26 | I do n't somehow feel that Liza 's mother would be all that pleased to see you . ’ |
| 27 | Any pattern can be designed in just two colours , which would be all that is needed if you want to create punchcard or Mylar charts for tuck , slip , weaving and so on . |
| 28 | If it were now fixed in Kenamun 's mind that Surere was the killer , another murder would be all that would save Merymose 's neck . |
| 29 | But he reckoned we would be on course for a start in April for the er certificate er which would be twelve half day day release courses |
| 30 | However , he would be right most of the time even if the central dogma is wrong , and protein sequences could be translated into DNA sequences , because most ‘ acquired characters ’ would not involve the synthesis of new kinds of proteins . |