Example sentences of "[noun] would [be] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mild , wet spring would be just the ticket for Stowmarket-based lawnmower maker Atco Qualcast , whose management team has just bought the firm from cement group Blue Circle Industries . |
| 2 | A Hollywood blue movie would be just the kind of bonus to keep his agents sweet . |
| 3 | A leaseholder ( unless prohibited by his own lease ) can himself grant a lease for any term less than that which he holds ; a grant for an equal or greater term would be merely a transfer of his own interest . |
| 4 | All that has happened in tokamaks has been consistent with the 1970 view , formulated by Lev Artsimovich , that achieving the conditions required for thermonuclear ignition in tokamaks would be only a matter of time and of larger machines and the development of ways of heating the plasma . |
| 5 | However , where the charge had been well laid before the magistrate , on its face bringing itself within his jurisdiction , any error would be only an error within jurisdiction . |
| 6 | A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers . |
| 7 | Because the US was sacrificing blood and treasure to assure peace and stability in the Far East , the maintenance of which after the war would be largely a US responsibility , it would not have been unreasonable ‘ to insist that the French give adequate assurances as to the implementing of policies in Indo-China which we consider essential to assure peace and stability in the Far East ’ . |
| 8 | Memory suggested that both Byron and Shelley had a taste for the morbid ; no doubt they would enjoy meeting Edgar Allan Poe — yet Poe would be only a child still , somewhere across a very wide Atlantic . |
| 9 | To get a good working sketch in colour would be quite an achievement and a good illustration of the potential of the Kurecolor KC-1100 Markers . |
| 10 | A surprise attack at midnight would be just the sort of thing he might try . |
| 11 | The delay would be twice the duration of the original journey time . |
| 12 | The redundancy money would be quite a bit but that was not the same as having a wage coming in . |
| 13 | a repeat performance would be just the job … |
| 14 | In the '70s , people would say that in the future , pop music would be chiefly a matter not of songs , but of strange space-age bleeps and fizzes . |
| 15 | Sheddon , however , refused this offer on the grounds that the travelling time to the new place of employment would be over an hour each way , compared with the 25-minute journey to the old site and because the travelling allowance only partly met his increased travel costs . |
| 16 | ‘ To the background would be nearer the truth . ’ |
| 17 | Because there are so many locations within the Castle , it simply is n't practical to detail every last carpet and piece of furniture — if we did this book would be twice the size ( and twice the price ! ) . |
| 18 | But , as will be seen later , the reverse would be nearer the truth . |
| 19 | Baked beans would be just the thing for it . " |
| 20 | The transfer of ILEA responsibilities to the council meant that future decisions around integration and children would be mainly the brief of the new Education Committee . |
| 21 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 22 | Thus in a five-member constituency in which 120,000 ballots are cast , the formula would be Hence the quota ( the number of ballots required to elect one member ) would be 20,001 . |
| 23 | This set would be just a taste of what was to come in the wedding dower , a tantalising taste of the jewels that would eventually be showered on the bride . |
| 24 | Christmas , Christmas would be twice a year so we could have lots of good cheer . |
| 25 | ‘ You would be the sole owner of the business ; my client would be merely an investor in the scheme , providing sufficient funds for you to purchase your stock-in-trade , and paying the entire rental of the property . |