Example sentences of "[adj] would be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that soon he would be in the Air Force and no longer a financial burden on Elfed , and , even more than that , when the war was over he would be a wage-earner at something or other , and would be able to help Elfed and Cis ; what was more , Elfed would be already well aware that the liability he resented would become an asset he welcomed . |
| 2 | Considering the pottery from the pre-forum levels illustrated , with the advantage of hindsight , one would date some of the vessels later than 120 , possibly 130 — 140 would be a better terminal . |
| 3 | It might be predicted , for instance , that 49 would be zeugmatic , since what is smashed ( the door-panel ) is different from what is bricked up ( the doorway ) : |
| 4 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 5 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 6 | Was there any reason to doubt that 1972 would be just as successful ? |
| 7 | Unorthodox would be the politest way of summarising the tail end — sometimes it worked , sometimes not . |
| 8 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 9 | The number of intervening sentences in which the item was not mentioned is one obvious variable , but more interesting would be the effect of such discourse boundaries as a change of scene , where a whole set of items can be assumed to enter the consciousness of the addressee , presumably pushing out old ones . |
| 10 | ( In the following cases , the corresponding phrase using prenominal position only would be fully acceptable ) : ( 50 ) the handbook useful is in your out-tray a story interesting would be hard to find ( 51 ) the only handbook useful is in your out-tray a story less interesting would be hard to find Even here , the distinction between qualification and assignment may have a part to play in the explanation . |
| 11 | ( In the following cases , the corresponding phrase using prenominal position only would be fully acceptable ) : ( 50 ) the handbook useful is in your out-tray a story interesting would be hard to find ( 51 ) the only handbook useful is in your out-tray a story less interesting would be hard to find Even here , the distinction between qualification and assignment may have a part to play in the explanation . |
| 12 | Needless to say , any such denial of this would be a denial of the power of education as a whole to mature individuals in their intellectual and moral perceptions . |
| 13 | She did n't have to worry what happened from the waist down as this would be hidden by the table holding her notes . |
| 14 | At £151.83 this would be a very useful tool to buy for those odd jobs about the house and garden . |
| 15 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
| 16 | But this would be moving in and making up the message in the style of the ‘ missing ’ letters in Poor People , the first story of all . |
| 17 | This would be undesirable behaviour in a transformer but is the essence of fluxgate operation . |
| 18 | This would be the appropriate tense for the writing of that paradoxical genre , ‘ contemporary history ’ . |
| 19 | And this would be the point from which to look back at Olson , as Catherine Seelye wants us to , and to regard The Maximus Poems as embodying ‘ the way of confusio ’ . |
| 20 | Industry observers fear that this would be another nail in the coffin of the independent record industry . |
| 21 | This would be the first example of Community rules crossing the Atlantic . |
| 22 | The outer security ring is about 22 miles from the city and this would be extended to about 62 miles as deals are struck with local tribes , he said . |
| 23 | The experiment gave every indication that this would be possible and was a great technical success — but when the elected representatives were asked to agree a city-wide scheme , they voted against it . |
| 24 | One option believed to be under consideration by GEC would be to form its own partnership with British Aerospace , but MoD sources say this would be unlikely to overcome its fundamental objections to GEC 's involvement . |
| 25 | He told them that around £10m of the lost cash had been recovered and a payment of this would be made . |
| 26 | He is not persuaded that this would be the effect . |
| 27 | He said this would be paid for by ‘ speculators and those who have been living off the state like cannibals ’ . |
| 28 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 29 | This would be aimed , the argument runs , at confiscating the ill-gotten gains of ‘ speculators ’ in the much-hated co-operative movement , and at eliminating a surplus currency overhang of up to 150bn roubles ( £150bn ) . |
| 30 | Clearly the RAF would be happy to show me their trophy-winners — while my cunning instincts told me that this would be the best place to do food-tasting ! |