Example sentences of "would be [adj] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case nature would be capable of wilful deception and all scientific investigation would be a waste of time . |
| 2 | Initially , in fact , only genuinely revolutionary members of the intelligentsia and the most advanced cadres of the proletariat would be abreast of revolutionary theory . |
| 3 | In the absence of controversy about the institution of monarchy , one might expect that the consensual British attitude would be one of unthinking acceptance . |
| 4 | Violet next door to me , who I help sometimes rake over her allotment , is eighty-five years old , and if one was to draw a graph of her life from 0–85 , it would be one of unremitting poverty . |
| 5 | The charge nowadays would be one of attempted theft where the accused intended to steal anything of value or anything in a container such as a pocket , holdall or room . |
| 6 | This model would obviously allow for contradiction and divergence but would be one of mobile equilibrium with positive indications . |
| 7 | The post would be one of real partnership with Christian Aid . |
| 8 | If you are thinking of feeding a composite source into the monitor , from a video recorder say , then the problem would be one of matching scan rates as well and this does get complicated . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |