Example sentences of "would be but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thought he 'd be but he wasn't. kids . |
| 2 | Wilson hesitated over how little ‘ little ’ would be but , when she heard the sum , could not resist agreeing since it was so very small . |
| 3 | It was not known yesterday what the exact number of redundancies would be but it is hoped that they can be achieved voluntarily . |
| 4 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 5 | Our step towards studying the influences exerted by the element of time on the relations between cost of production and value may well be to consider the famous fiction of the ‘ Stationary state ’ in which those influences would be but little felt ; and to contrast the results which would be found there with those in the modern world . |
| 6 | I mean , for example , I mean I 'm not saying this is an association but you might find in your dream , if you look to say I 'm back at school , then your association would be but I am at school now , the London School of Economics , do you see what I mean ? |
| 7 | The magnitude y d thus ceases to have any practical relevance since it is an entirely hypothetical quantity : if labour services were sold , the demand for goods would be But this representation of the aggregate demand for goods is patently misleading since realized trading in labour services and goods only amount to and respectively . |
| 8 | They do n't know how useful it would be but anyway , they said there , there 's , it 's a slightly odd event because it 's actually going to be just in the Civic Centre , and er , and kind of tacking on some workshops and things , so I 'm going to help her with workshops and have a display stand and so on but other than that , we 've not really got any direct input into it , because it is very much , sort of , you know , this is how you do business in France , these are the financial problems , type of thing . |
| 9 | I did n't know whether it would be but I thought , well you could go down and change it . |
| 10 | but then her excuse would be but I mean he ca n't be on shift |
| 11 | I said I did n't think probably that would be but I was n't sure . |