Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Erm wh what I would suggest is the three that are on the group and if John 's going to be off maybe somebody else from NALGO would , would er step in to the group , get together over the next two weeks or so and er try to jointly produce a Northumberland newsletter ? |
| 3 | The main points of the explanation that I would suggest are the following . |
| 4 | What 's more , I would have been the first to complain . |
| 5 | I would have been the first to know . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 7 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 8 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 9 | Aching in bones as if they would break is the main feature of this remedy that accompanies all of its complaints . |
| 10 | The last thing they would expect was the obvious , it was a certain way to catch them flat-footed . |
| 11 | They would have been the only outward sign of strain as her voice continued to keep its same even tenor , its same quiet courtesy . |
| 12 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 13 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 14 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 15 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 16 | If Louis , Martin 's brother-in-law , was in fact the son of Louis and Marie Francard , then he would have been the last Parisian descendant of the line of Louis I Marriage contract of Jacques le Romain , 1728 |
| 17 | But it would have been the other school as well ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 20 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Clarke said it was a clever evil and devious scheme and it would have been the perfect murder . |
| 24 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 25 | But they overlook one vital fact — it would have been the simplest thing in the world for the ICC to announce the ball was changed under Law 5 because it had gone out of shape — if that had been true . |
| 26 | It would have been the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth of June , nineteen-ninety . |
| 27 | If agent provocateurs had been endeavouring to make trouble between Official and Provisional IRA , it would have been the ideal weapon to use . |
| 28 | It would have been the easiest thing in the world take me into another room and tell me they actually liked what Allison was doing , but they did n't . ’ |
| 29 | It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings . |
| 30 | 6 IF super Mario Bros 3 had been a film it would have been the biggest earning movie of all time . |