Example sentences of "[adv] would [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That on the one hand he felt that to do so would be a betrayal , and on the other , an impossibility : how was he to find another woman as pure , as mysteriously beautiful ? |
| 2 | Not to do so would be a betrayal of our hope that the founding principles of the National Health Service can survive the government 's reforms . |
| 3 | If that was unacceptable in Britain , how much more so would be a proposal to set up a porno cinema at Heathrow or Gatwick ? |
| 4 | As an analogy , one does not consider the notion of fatherhood a vague one , within the semantic domain of family relationships , simply because there is an immense number of types of relationship which may exist between actual fathers and their offspring ; to do so would be a category error . |
| 5 | To do so would be a breach of their fiduciary relationship with the other partners , and contrary to s. 30 of the Partnership Act 1890 . |
| 6 | They say to do so would be a breach of health service rules of confidentiality . |
| 7 | Yet to continue trench warfare as before would be a mistake . |
| 8 | Everything within her was reaching out to him — to be denied now would be a torture more than she could bear . |
| 9 | Failure to do so now would be a breach of promise . |
| 10 | They think their hour is come to close on me , and to deal moderately now would be a thing in their littleness they could not but mistake . |
| 11 | This arrangement would lack the sonority of that which we have given , but the beauty of the horn in a melody which would suit it so well would be a point very much in its favour . |
| 12 | Tomorrow would be a business presentation , no different from the many she had already attended for other campaigns . |
| 13 | And yet Eve had never had anything new , she knew that whatever dress she got for today would be a reject . |
| 14 | Mr Sam Fawcett was a truly remarkable man , and if he were alive today would be a television and radio personality , I am certain . |
| 15 | But if this pattern is widely adopted , here would be a dimension of democracy which is as yet hardly known at all in the officially democratic West . |
| 16 | I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland . |
| 17 | Franks contended it was undesirable in principle that the appointment of so many chairmen and members of individual tribunals should rest with the departmental Ministers concerned , when it was their own departments which frequently would be a party to proceedings before a tribunal . |
| 18 | He had reached Blakemere , which was only two miles further on , when he pondered if he should take another direction and make his way to the river , but the thought that even this far out there 'd be a number of people on the banks today , mostly youngsters , he guessed , swimming or playing the usual dangerous game of swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch , deterred him . |
| 19 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 20 | If the car costs more than £12,000 there would be a tax restriction on the relief available for the payments . |
| 21 | Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case . |
| 22 | But Mr Major angrily denied this , saying the technology was already outdated and any cash put forward would be a waste of money . |
| 23 | Anything else would be a bonus . ’ |
| 24 | Doing it worldwide would be a nightmare . |
| 25 | There never would be a relief crew . |
| 26 | I never , never would be a believer as was others , of a a cabinet government . |
| 27 | He was supported by Alun Michael , MP for Cardiff South , who argued that for Labour to take the issue seriously would be a gift to the party 's opponents . |
| 28 | Definitely would be a technique . |