Example sentences of "would be [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dauntless directed a glance at Cleo to convey it was unlikely she 'd be free of such nuisances anywhere in this place . |
| 2 | The House of Commons would no longer reflect the ancient idea and be representative of " whole " boroughs , county communities , or corporate interests but would be representative of unorganised masses of individual men since at this time no women had the vote . |
| 3 | I do n't think a boy of about ten years of age would be capable of such martyrdom . |
| 4 | In that case nature would be capable of wilful deception and all scientific investigation would be a waste of time . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you think Steen would be capable of that sort of thing , Harry ? ’ |
| 6 | Initially , in fact , only genuinely revolutionary members of the intelligentsia and the most advanced cadres of the proletariat would be abreast of revolutionary theory . |
| 7 | It would be unreasonable of any firm to claim that it is the best at everything . ’ |
| 8 | Erm and spring water produced within the regulations of the E C would be pure of any additives . |
| 9 | After Seymour it is thought that all of these accused would be guilty of reckless manslaughter . |
| 10 | The connection between the circumstance and the smell , on his view , is precisely the kind of connection , or want of connection , that would be true of real chance or real random events . |
| 11 | Although no empirical data were offered to support the hypothesis , he suggested that for low urgency areas the toleration of tangents would be high , whereas the reverse would be true of high urgency . |
| 12 | It would be naive of any Opposition Member to think that British Steel had not carefully considered the possibilities of that type of development , which requires a plentiful scrap supply and low energy costs . |
| 13 | Such responses would be free of eye-velocity signals , but at the same time would be contaminated by visual signals or higher command signals acting to cancel the VOR . |
| 14 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 15 | I think it would be wrong of this Committee to comment on the er , what happens in other committees , certainly in this Committee , I do n't think any , anyone 's ever criticized your erm , representation on the community project , we do perfectly , we ca n't hurt their decisions , so your relationship with this Committee is , is good , er , elsewhere , I do n't know anything about it . |
| 16 | The new measurement of a would be independent of previous techniques and potentially more accurate ( New Scientist , vol 93 , p 572 ) . |
| 17 | It might be argued that rivals would be aware of this possibility and therefore move in quickly , bearing initial losses in the same way as the initial company does . |
| 18 | Her lungs would be full of stale air that she could n't release , while her brain was already filling with static from lack of the same . |
| 19 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |
| 20 | Soon the place would be full of various bits and pieces that Joe Maitland bought in bulk from the manufacturers and sold to outlets and stallholders in the markets . |
| 21 | I think I would be top of any seed 's list of players they would prefer not to have in their section . ’ |
| 22 | Many of the homeless on London 's streets would be glad of warm clothes and a roof over their head . |
| 23 | Even the farmers would be glad of this downpour — provided it was short and sharp . |