Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 2 | The journey and the sport would usefully consume at least three weeks , during all of which she would be beyond the regular or predictable reach of the mails . |
| 3 | Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that . |
| 4 | Which it would be of course if you were n't a regulated body . |
| 5 | Right but then I suppose that you could say that it 's the idea of the balm cake which it would be on the level of the , in , in intellect |
| 6 | The fresh air she breathed made pure blood for you , and often during the day she wondered what you would be like , whether your eyes would be blue or brown , and prayed God to make you a good child . |
| 7 | But she was thinking more of Ianthe Broome and the man she and Penelope had seen that afternoon , and wondering what they would be like . |
| 8 | On the first night of Gentle Jack , Ken knew what they would be like . |
| 9 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
| 10 | Thus it is not clear what it would be like to regard all actions as requiring non-intentional explanation , and this makes it much harder for the individualist to argue that , whatever it would be like , it is out of the question . |
| 11 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
| 12 | You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me . |
| 13 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 14 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 15 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 16 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 17 | I think , with having children of my own , I think what it would be like , God forbid , if that happened to one of my kids . |
| 18 | He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time . |
| 19 | This chapter illustrates what it would be like , through the eyes of the Royal Scots . |
| 20 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 21 | McLeish knew roughly what it would be like from Francesca 's description of her own Department , but he was still interested in the controlled bustle in the big untidy room . |
| 22 | Now do you understand what it would be like if everyone was like that ? |
| 23 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 24 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 25 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 26 | That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does . |
| 27 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 28 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 29 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it . |