Example sentences of "would be [adv] [adj] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , I would be most reluctant to hold that the common law , though capable of development in this field in every other jurisdiction , has crystallised in England at a date long past — 1891 was Mr. Ashworth 's preferred date . |
| 2 | It would be grossly unfair to suggest that it can not be used by anyone else , but the degree of achievement attained by such users will be limited |
| 3 | In the Japanese setting , for example , it would be wholly inappropriate to conclude that a particular element such as seniority-based wage payments would be desirable as a policy prescription elsewhere , without a prior understanding of how that wage system relates both to the general security of employment in large Japanese firms and , possibly , the cultural assumptions concerning the importance of age in other parts of Japanese society ( Dore , 1973 ) . |
| 4 | However , if a people sacrifices all strangers to the sun , because it will burn out unless nourished by human blood , it would be unduly humble to think that they have as much right to their opinion as we have . |
| 5 | It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value . |
| 6 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 7 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |
| 8 | Although the depiction of an ancient building on a coin can not be taken entirely at face value , it would be equally wrong to conclude that the evidence of coins is worthless in reconstructing the architectural history of the ancient world . |
| 9 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 10 | It would be absurdly sanguine to suggest that the latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed any global movement in the direction of democracy or popular power . |
| 11 | ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’ |
| 12 | It would be as well to remember that CPE died ( 1786 ) only five years before Mozart , by which time Bach 's musical style had already been overtaken by the Classicists . |
| 13 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 14 | For example , if the words prior to dogs/clogs had been raining cats and then it would be fairly safe to say that the intended word was dogs . |
| 15 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 16 | However , it would be virtually impossible to force that onto people , on the branch officers and we recommend acceptance again with that qualification . |
| 17 | Thus it would be virtually true to say that ultimately fossil fuels serve as food in developed countries . |
| 18 | Although we will never know officially , because the Lawn Tennis Association is understandably touchy and secretive about such matters , I would be highly surprised to discover that they lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event at the new National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in November . |
| 19 | ‘ It would be perfectly natural to hope that your husband had n't died for someone second-rate , but I suppose the boy has a point of view . |
| 20 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 21 | In principle , it would be quite possible to argue that this sense of obligation had weakened , even if the actual volume of support between kin remained at a substantial level , because more people are now in a situation where they need support , and because the economic circumstances of the majority of the population ( by comparison with a century earlier ) are much easier . |
| 22 | Moreover , it would be quite wrong to conclude that in the above examples only the tones given would be appropriate ; it is , in fact , almost impossible to find a context where one could not substitute a different tone . |
| 23 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |
| 24 | A well-known example is ‘ controversy ’ , which is pronounced by some speakers as and by others as ; it would be quite wrong to say that one version was correct and one incorrect . |
| 25 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 26 | It would be quite wrong to suggest that the only influence on mate choice is relative familiarity . |
| 27 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 28 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 29 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 30 | Even so , it would be too much to claim that the government possessed a carefully considered industrial strategy . |