Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd rather be constructive about this and meet Virginia Bottomley , put these points to her as an all party thing cos we 've all said in Social Services that that is the problem that we 're faced with .
2 If crazy Jake can leave it , so can I , and I 'd rather be mad like him than sane like that lot in Wickrithe ! ’
3 ‘ More than I 'd ever be interested in doing for someone as one-dimensional as you are . ’
4 So , I made a promise to myself that I 'd never be late with any deadlines .
5 I knew I 'd never be free of the dog until he was gone ( Eric , poor well-meaning bright but ignorant Eric , thought I still was n't , and I just could n't tell him why I knew I was ) .
6 I 'd never be able to without the police getting wind of it .
7 er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house
8 I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds .
9 I would also be responsible for financing the trip with respect to fuel , ferries , extra food and insurance , though several regimental charities gave donations .
10 I would even be happy with a 0-0 draw . ’
11 However if any woman reading this is looking for marriage and parenthood , I would certainly be interested in corresponding with her .
12 I suddenly felt an immense relief that I only had one more charter to complete for Cutwater , and that I would then be free of these men .
13 I could see writing would be difficult , but I could also see I would possibly be good at it .
14 The Netherlands draft treaty maintained Luxembourg 's proposals for an extension of EC powers in social affairs , health , and education , which would also be subject to majority voting .
15 A separate room for student computing , which would also be suitable for lectures and seminars on computing , is needed , together with additional hardware and new software .
16 On Dec. 6 the Foreign Ministry announced that Soviet citizens would be allowed to subscribe ( in hard currency ) to foreign papers and magazines , more of which would also be available in public libraries .
17 Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement .
18 With the help of the red iron a Tramen is able to inhale the atmosphere of the planet — which would otherwise be deadly to him — and to exhale gas for export to Vascar .
19 In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision .
20 On the other hand , where the contract redefines as a warranty a term which would otherwise be a condition , its effect is to exclude a remedy ( the right to reject goods and/or terminate the contract ) which would otherwise be available to the innocent party , and it will then be regarded as an exclusion clause .
21 ( d ) Clauses excluding remedies A similar result can be achieved in a less subtle way by simply excluding some of the remedies which would otherwise be available to the innocent party in the event of breach .
22 The Rapporteur was notably unenthusiastic about this text ‘ que nous n'estimons pas très heureux ’ ; its effect appears to be that a Contracting State can enter an objection to the modes of service provided for in Article 10 ( which would otherwise be available in respect of all Contracting States ) but allow their use in respect of particular , and perhaps especially neighbouring , states .
23 Maddening , antique and archaically dotty as the present system may be , it provides drama and colour which would otherwise be absent from modern elections .
24 The aim of the community art project is to improve the environment and to make an attractive feature of bare walls which would otherwise be prone to vandalism and graffiti .
25 It may also swell the juice within the grapes to bursting point , ruining the fruit for winemaking unless harvested and transported to the press while still frozen , which would hardly be practicable for any significant area of vines affected by frost .
26 The initiating member should offer an incentive to all Network members to encourage the submission of original prospective purchaser suggestions , in the form of a success fee equal to , for instance , 10% of the total estimated engagement fee and which would only be payable to a Network member 's firm if the following conditions are satisfied :
27 Otherwise , he argued , many Germans might be seduced by the lure of a neutral , but unified Germany which would inevitably be susceptible to Soviet influence .
28 The EMF would issue hard ecu deposits or notes in exchange for national currencies and set interest rates on hard ecu , initially on the interest bearing deposits it took , largely from commercial banks , and later " by the normal central banking techniques , namely through the creation of money market shortages which would then be relieved at the chosen interest rate " .
29 ( Congress had agreed to give the US administration until March 3 , 1991 , to submit an entire trade package which would then be subject to a single vote instead of the more usual procedure of amending it item by item . )
30 Similarly , being closed and self-contained , the structure implies a concentric form of organization with the centre as the organizing agent which would then be exempt from the play of differences which , instead , it appears to control .
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