Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On this level of mere temperamental affinity ( not considering its truth or falsehood ) we feel Lewis to be a man who would be most happy in Christian garb .
2 As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression .
3 In the LFAs , grants would be additionally available to part-time farmers .
4 Such acceptance would make it possible to bring to an end the constant friction and disagreement between science and religion ; for religion , with its ‘ god ’ defined independently of the origin of the world or of life , would not be concerned with those origins , and would be completely unaffected by scientific advance .
5 This need would be particularly acute in mature schemes where most members are drawing their pensions and the need for income generating investments is greatest .
6 This , of course , would be particularly applicable in standard term contracts , or where there was a marked inequality in bargaining power .
7 In the case of horizontally separated zones and certain types of racking this would be particularly difficult by normal means of observation .
8 Nagendra Singh , in his book Nuclear Weapons and International Law ( Singh , 1959 , p. 215 ) advanced the view , subsequently taken up by many other legal writers , that the first use of nuclear weapons would be particularly questionable in international law :
9 The sounds , as we have already said , must have provided a constant cacophonous background to the daily round , while the smell of a street which included a butcher and chandler 's shop , stables , a smithy , clothiers , workshops and a liberal supply of earth closets would be scarcely credible to modern sensibilities .
10 Entertainments including music , singing and dancing held in the lower cafe part of the Priory would be even closer to residential properties in the village square and thus more likely to disturb local residents .
11 One of the reasons why the complex inter-market relations of the keiretsu are entered into is to organize those related and ancillary actions which would be internally subject to imperative co-ordination in more typical Western enterprises .
12 He argued that ‘ It would be entirely contrary to longstanding conventions in these matters to publish this sort of information . ’
13 Four centuries earlier Socrates at Athens observed that a really righteous person would be so unacceptable to human society that he would be subjected to every humiliation and crucified .
14 This conflict arises because any directives towards making nationalized industries more fully accountable would , on the one hand , lead to the release of commercially confidential information that would be readily available to private sector competitors , and , on the other hand , would provide for potential political exploitation by those either for or against the concept of nationalization .
15 Secondly , and more importantly , the fact that some courts get by with comparatively few custodial sentences suggests that it would be perfectly possible for other courts to reduce their custody rates to this level , and thereby reduce the prison population .
16 Director Terence Young assured him he would be perfectly safe behind toughened flexiglass but they ran out of sheets and there was a 4ft gap .
17 That would be quite unacceptable to good potential MPs who do not think much of popularity ( their own or other people 's ) and would not demean themselves by deliberately setting out to acquire it .
18 With any luck he would have disappeared by now , caught up in discussions with prospective clients , and by the time he found her she would be too involved in other matters to be cornered .
19 Opponents of the plan say the gravel pit is in a conservation area , and the houses would be too expensive for local people .
20 People in Bodenham object because it 's in a conservation area and they say the proposed houses would be too expensive for local people .
21 In spite of the removal of smoke by roof ventilation , the scene of operations would be too remote for direct visual observation to provide a reliable indication of progress and no degree of artificial lighting , even if it could be provided and relied upon in these circumstances would offer adequate assistance .
22 Students would be too busy with real life to be bothered about social problems and conditions .
23 The build-up of phase current to its rated value would be too slow for satisfactory operation of the motor at high speeds .
24 The East German government estimated on June 17 that the country 's total industrial funding requirement would be between DM5,000 million and DM6,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million-3,577 million ) per month after unification , and that up to one-third of all East German companies would be totally dependent on foreign credits .
25 Then , ‘ once border sealed Vietminh problem would be immeasurably simpler with proper combination of military and political activity . ’
26 I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others .
27 But the Director of Education concluded that the educational situation would be much better at Green Haven .
28 Nevertheless Mr King says it would be much worse under Labour .
29 If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges .
30 Gary would be very grateful for new route information and any historical detail that regular devotees of the area could supply .
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