Example sentences of "this [noun] would [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of return on this investment would be the one-year rolling yield for a term to maturity of ten years . |
| 2 | Perhaps this operation would be the last , perhaps his Western masters would finally decide that the old workhorse had given his best and deserved to be put out in rich pastures . |
| 3 | This emperor would be the secular arm of the pope following papal policies : in some ways a simplistic interpretation of the Donation of Constantine , perhaps — the return to an ideal that had never existed . |
| 4 | Questions which it is worth keeping in mind when reading the remaining chapters in this book would be the following : |
| 5 | Last night Buckingham Palace denied that this trip would be the last one Charles and Diana would ever take together and three separate sources confirmed that the couple still planned to travel abroad next spring . |
| 6 | The obvious candidates for commercial breeding programmes in this country would be the Cleaner Shrimps , Stenopus hispidus and Lysmata amboinensis , which spawn freely in captivity with young that should be no more difficult to raise than brine shrimp . |
| 7 | Then , as now , the paralysis of progressive institutional politics found its echo in the threat of world war — this time would be the last time . |
| 8 | If the σ-subunit were also contacting the adjacent minor groove , at -40 instead of α , one good candidate to perform this task would be the non-recognition helix of the HTH motif . |