Example sentences of "[pron] would be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm not sure that I 'd be the best person to judge whether I turned to writing by way of compensation or not , though I can see that a serious death like that would lead to a world that was whole being broken . |
| 2 | I 'd be the last person to say anything against old Stavanger — he brought me into the company , and I owe a lot to him . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd be the last person to know , would n't I ? |
| 4 | I 'm not being greedy but if someone paid me £50,000 for a fight , I 'd be the happiest man in the world . |
| 5 | In about two hundred years I 'd be the richest man in Luggnagg . |
| 6 | ’ I think people find me obnoxious because I wo n't admit that I secretly loathe Kyle Minogue and Jason Donovan , but I really do think they 're great artists — if I did n't I 'd be the biggest hypocrite in the world . |
| 7 | I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is . |
| 8 | My particular role erm in the operation was to carry one of the ballistic shields erm and I also erm during the briefing was informed that I would be the first person through the front door and consequent consequently to the door of the master bedroom . |
| 9 | ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm . |
| 10 | I would be the last person to say that it was all your fault . |
| 11 | Lord Mayor , I would be the last person to criticise either Councillors or offices who attempt to represent this district on foreign shores , whenever and wherever such trips are perfectly legitimate . |
| 12 | I would be the last person to begrudge Pears his chance . |
| 13 | And I would be the last person to advocate that we follow the American practice of litigation er to the extremes that they pursue it in the States . |
| 14 | ‘ If I believed you , ’ said Ludovico da Bologna , ‘ I would be the happiest man in Nicosia . |
| 15 | ‘ The opposition was divided and he thought his would be the strongest party . |
| 16 | For Lewis , this was ‘ the personal heresy ’ , a vivid example of which would be the present biography , which seeks to shed light on a man 's work by researching into the recesses of his mind and the outward events of his life . |
| 17 | For though I doubt if he 's ready to own to it yet , I know of another who can and will testify that the two of them were together until the bell sounded for Compline , which would be the better part of an hour later than you have in mind , and a quarter of an hour 's walk from the place , into the bargain . |
| 18 | A sign of the country 's plight is that it is hard to say which would be the better investment . |
| 19 | You could see from there ; and then we might know which would be the best way to go . " |
| 20 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 21 | and you are never revealed on your battle field would be to erm phone up Trailfinders or S T A , I think I might 've asked S T A , and find out which would be the best card , which would be the best card to have . |
| 22 | and you are never revealed on your battle field would be to erm phone up Trailfinders or S T A , I think I might 've asked S T A , and find out which would be the best card , which would be the best card to have . |
| 23 | Which would be the best thing . |
| 24 | To give an indication as it were which in terms of within the City of York , which would be the least worse of the options . |
| 25 | The question was which would be the Nth power to acquire the bomb which would also be irresponsible enough to start the holocaust . |
| 26 | ’ I ca n't see how any democratic member of Parliament can vote for such a sloppy bill , which would be the thin end of a very dangerous web . |
| 27 | SDLP councillor Dermot Curran , disagreeing with the idea of a barricade , commented : ‘ We would be imprisoning people which would be the wrong thing to do . ’ |
| 28 | It occurred to us that you 'd be the ideal person to teach him what goes on behind the scenes . ’ |
| 29 | But if she had missed this one , she would be the laughing stock of her class . |
| 30 | Soon she would be the proud keeper of two secrets — the first that Miguel Rafaelo owned Monte Samana , and second that she , Shelley Cameron , would be the only woman to know the true identity of the famous Miguelito . |