Example sentences of "[adj] would [be] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious way of doing this would be by seeking to invoke the protection afforded to freedom of conscience under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 2 | For a human female this would be like having a baby in her mid-sixties . |
| 3 | To say this would be like saying that people acquire the concept of the past by experiencing it in memory . |
| 4 | Some of these would be worth reviving , for example Elizabeth Hammond 's gooseberry or apple trifle quoted on page 240 and Robert May 's beautiful " black fruit " mixtures . |
| 5 | ‘ Buying Manchester United would be like buying a Van Gogh — you just can not put a value on it . ’ |
| 6 | A more accurate way of conveying the thought that men exist or that dragons are fictional would be by saying " For some ( at least one ) x , x is a man " and " Nothing is a dragon " ; employing expressions , that is , that correspond to what logicians call , " quantifiers " , and enable us to dispel any lingering illusion that existential propositions might have a subject/predicate structure . |
| 7 | Well er that 's the same , that would be worth thinking this you know |
| 8 | I wonder if that would be worth getting ? |
| 9 | That would be worth knowing . |
| 10 | Well I think that would be worth looking into |
| 11 | Now that would be worth having . |
| 12 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 13 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 14 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 15 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |