Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be most likely to be extravagant on the following : |
| 2 | Whatever B replies to this last utterance of A , it would be most unlikely to be yes again , since A has clearly finished her instructions and it would be pointless to ‘ prompt ’ her to continue . |
| 3 | There are many well educated deaf ladies in the country who would be most happy to be thus employed . " |
| 4 | Before looking at some examples of tool using among animals , it would be as well to be clear about what we mean by the term . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be so easy to be friends with you , petite , ’ he murmured against her ear . |
| 6 | She would be so lonely to be without you . |
| 7 | It would be highly undesirable to be confident about a hard disk that has a question mark hanging over it . |
| 8 | I would have thought with a child that it would be far better to be N H S. |
| 9 | It was hoped that after very few incumbencies evaluation activities would be sufficiently deep-rooted to be self-sustaining , and the post could be abolished . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 11 | And yet these would be better able to be active and grow quickly on a limited food supply , particularly in a stable equable climate . |
| 12 | More than one researcher abandoned the field with the argument that if the biochemical changes really ‘ coded for ’ memory in the brain then they would be too small to be measured , and if they were large enough to be measured then they probably were n't anything to do with memory . |
| 13 | The booklet would be too big to be given away , but could be available in tourist offices etc for a reasonable price . |
| 14 | We can not in fact count the number of monomer units in a chain and we must remember that , even if we could , this number would be very unlikely to be the same for all chains . |
| 15 | ‘ I would be very glad to be of assistance , sir . ’ |
| 16 | In order to make the most of the exercise , some teachers thought that it would be very valuable to be able to read other departmental self-appraisals and for there to be general discussion of the appraisal . |
| 17 | I said I would be very happy to be out there . |
| 18 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 19 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 20 | Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door . |
| 21 | Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age . |
| 22 | Hamilton argued that , because selection is stronger on earlier ages , alleles with advantageous effects early in life would be more likely to be fixed by selection than those with a later age of action , an argument that implies that populations are continually adapting , and so are not in equilibrium . |
| 23 | Erm , so there 's all kinds of reasons why children from such situations would be more likely to be in trouble but I do n't think there 's evidence to say that it 's because of from lone parents . |
| 24 | A minimum number of three cycles is needed to estimate variability , and women with low waist-hip ratios — that is more fertile women — would be more likely to be excluded from such an analysis , leading to an under–estimation of the relation between waist-hip ratio and fecundity . |
| 25 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 26 | In Re Hammond & Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 the court said that if a building dispute were referred to an umpire who was a barrister the procedure would be more likely to be an arbitration , and that if the umpire were a quantity surveyor it would be more likely to be a valuation . |
| 27 | In Re Hammond & Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 the court said that if a building dispute were referred to an umpire who was a barrister the procedure would be more likely to be an arbitration , and that if the umpire were a quantity surveyor it would be more likely to be a valuation . |
| 28 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |
| 29 | And today very few British parents would be seriously alarmed to be told their children had measles . |