Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I do n't know why the default is n't 500 ( which would be exactly half a second ) either . |
| 2 | Which would be as good a way as any for me to get Rainbow off the premises , before those inhibitions of hers — which I 've left bound and gagged at the back of her wardrobe — work their knots out and come riding to the rescue . |
| 3 | St James 's Park , famous for its bird-life , would be as good a place as any . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought that would be as good a place to start as any . |
| 5 | If she was to indulge in escapism , surely here would be as good a place as any ? |
| 6 | ‘ It seems a good idea , ’ said Penny Warlock , looking up to Glenda and wondering if she herself would be as impressive a figure after ten or fifteen years in the teaching profession . |
| 7 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |
| 8 | For Greece 's hopes of joining the modern world , this would be as big a catastrophe as the humiliation the Greek army suffered in Anatolia 70 years ago . |
| 9 | Bob 's dog Meg was a model of obedience and George knew that she would be as big an asset in the handling of the sheep as her master . |
| 10 | This would be so absurd a system , that it could hardly fail to persuade the country that the Lower House must be reformed . |
| 11 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 12 | The dusty road encircled the island , here and there broken by small fishing settlements — ‘ village ’ would be too pretentious a word — the country around us laced with waterfalls on the hills behind , small bays , one very shallow , the next a deep creek where the beach became a small headland , the pale colour of the sea turned indigo because of the depth . |
| 13 | Pulling it open would be too great a risk and Turner could not trust his own hands to hold the bag steady . |
| 14 | It would be too simplistic an approach to such a society to say that hi sā dominated . |
| 15 | But this would be too simple an answer because there are many possible reasons to explain poor performance in the housebuilding industry . |
| 16 | Loggerheads would be too mild a term . |
| 17 | It would be too crude a generalisation , though , to say that critics are concerned with form , while historians are interested in the context of art ; both the forms and contexts of art are common ground for the critic and the historian . |
| 18 | She even sold her house in Germany to pay for it , and while she 's happy to stretch this little two seater to the limit in practice , lasting damage to the Bar-Belle Bomber would be too high a price to pay for victory … |
| 19 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 20 | DARLINGTON bus companies ' threat to boycott Skerne Park over proposed speed restrictions would be totally unacceptable the head of Darlington council 's transport committee said yesterday . |
| 21 | Otto was speaking — spluttering would be more apt a description — with his mouth full . |
| 22 | He added that independent analysts had forecast that the annual growth rate of the Scottish economy over the next five years would be almost double the rate — around two per cent — that was currently estimated if Scotland remained within the Union . |
| 23 | And er the ones out of the control room they managed to get down that stage we would be about half an hour after it , after the initial blast . |