Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | philosophical side of Marxism which is very interesting and there 's a lot of very deep thoughts but what we 've been given your definition , is what I 'd say is the political strategy that Marx said er was necessary to achieve the philosophical ends . |
| 2 | I therefore do not regard those authorities as affecting what I would conclude was the clear language of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1977 , that a statutory tenant remains a statutory tenant so long as he occupies the dwelling house as his residence . |
| 3 | The main points of the explanation that I would suggest are the following . |
| 4 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 5 | And just one other plan we 'd welcome is the young people in the come in . |
| 6 | Aching in bones as if they would break is the main feature of this remedy that accompanies all of its complaints . |
| 7 | The last thing they would expect was the obvious , it was a certain way to catch them flat-footed . |
| 8 | They would have been the only outward sign of strain as her voice continued to keep its same even tenor , its same quiet courtesy . |
| 9 | But it would have been the other school as well ? |
| 10 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 11 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 12 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 13 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 14 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke said it was a clever evil and devious scheme and it would have been the perfect murder . |
| 16 | If agent provocateurs had been endeavouring to make trouble between Official and Provisional IRA , it would have been the ideal weapon to use . |
| 17 | It would have been the old . |
| 18 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |