Example sentences of "[coord] it would [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There has to be an incredible amount of subtlety or it would be nonsense . ’
2 Either Doctor Who would be drama , or it would be adventure .
3 Modulations can therefore follow various routes , and it would be folly to recommend any particular pattern .
4 It was now early autumn and it would be winter soon .
5 I just got Saturday and Sunday nights off , and it would be chapel on a Sunday of course .
6 And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him .
7 ‘ They have turned the company around against a tight economic background and it would be shame if it was pounced on .
8 I dare not spend another farthing , and it would be suicide for me to go to the bank , even if Richard agreed , which he wo n't . ’
9 Therefore , in any dealings , the only movement would come from Labour , and it would be movement in the direction of a no-entry sign .
10 A quick mile round the town , a shower and it would be time for the evening reading .
11 Frejji would there soon , and it would be time to leave .
12 No , but it would be shock
13 But it would be folly to repeat the mistake , made with Iraq , of allowing foreign-policy merit to blot out oppression at home .
14 Lord Salisbury espoused and practised a limited politics , but it would be reductionist to equate this with the doctrinaire non-interventionism preached by the LPDL .
15 It might be a sullen grey sky but it would be daylight for hours yet …
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