Example sentences of "[det] would [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to have failed to realise this would be not to have understood the use of ‘ I hope ’ . |
| 2 | This would be just like we ourselves can tell when a dog , or any other animal , is feeling in a dangerous mood without understanding the greater detail of their language . |
| 3 | Property worth more than this would be partially compensated on a sliding scale up to 5,000,000 forint . |
| 4 | This would be simply to deny his right of decision . |
| 5 | But to suppose this would be completely to have misunderstood the business of making promises . |
| 6 | The floor was thick with bird droppings but this would be roughly cleaned and a layer of straw put down . |
| 7 | We are grateful for some help received to date from QP and if other friends wish to be identified with the work in a practical manner , this would be much appreciated . |
| 8 | This would be greatly facilitated by moving the work of this office into the Inverleith Row premises . |
| 9 | Experience with paper records shows , however , that this would be poorly done . |
| 10 | Under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 it is an offence — punishable with life imprisonment — to damage property ‘ intending by the destruction or damage to endanger the life of another or being reckless whether the life of another would be thereby endangered ’ . |
| 11 | The grocer would come to the house for the orders of his regular customers , and these would be promptly delivered . |
| 12 | Jack had said , and said again and again , that all would be well provided no one told lies . |
| 13 | But for a combination of quick thinking , good luck and the skill of medical staff , neither would be here to tell the tale . |
| 14 | Each would be clearly marked on the outside : Traditional Happy Ending ; Traditional Unhappy Ending ; Traditional Half-and-Half Ending ; Deus ex Machina ; Modernist Arbitrary Ending ; End of the World Ending ; Cliffhanger Ending ; Dream Ending ; Opaque Ending ; Surrealist Ending ; and so on . |
| 15 | No , no , no , I take your point , but I did n't mean that , it 's the way I 'd read the press release , I was n't the one reading it , so certainly they it would that would be please do n't forget I mean no one is going to really knock for your English |
| 16 | That would be ill advised and , I am sure , is not the intention of the NCB . |
| 17 | But the Prime Minister has declared that that would be unacceptably damaging to us . |
| 18 | But it must not be false ; that would be downright cheating and nature can not cheat . |
| 19 | I would thought that from my quite long experience now with the relief agencies that the British operational agencies , that is those agencies which consistently respond to overseas disasters and send out their own people , technically and professionally qualified people , and that would be really Save the Children Fund and Oxfam , are absolutely excellent . |
| 20 | No , that would be merely drawing attention to something that , after all , had nothing to do with him . |