Example sentences of "the [noun sg] would be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder would be in psychogeriatric assessment wards and in the long-stay wards of psychiatric hospitals . |
| 2 | The frustration of life without a torch , illustrated by either a feature or a demonstration , could interest the men 's press , and special car fitments for fixing a torch inside the car would be of great interest to the motoring media . |
| 3 | But he notes that three-quarters of the dose would be from heavy ions , whose biological effects are ‘ poorly understood ’ . |
| 4 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 5 | And sometimes , towards dawn , the music would be at full blast and there would be hardly any movement at all , nothing left except maybe just one couple kissing — and yet that looked like dancing too . |
| 6 | Indeed , I am not sure what the correlation would be between formal attainments and the right qualities needed to take a degree in poetry . |
| 7 | ‘ The quarry would be of tremendous benefit to the building industry , ’ said Mr Jones . |
| 8 | As in Venturous the superstructure would be of light alloy . |
| 9 | The design would be of clean , straight non-IOR lines with an ample , but not excessive , beam running well aft . |
| 10 | Opposition to Mr Smith 's candidacy would mean seven months of squabbling and , even if no other candidate emerges , the party would be without clear direction until autumn . |
| 11 | Du Pont in the USA had invented nylon in the late 1930s and it was clear that the material would be of tremendous use to countries at war . |