Example sentences of "and [adj] [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And that would be serious .
2 We looked into all sorts of different buildings , and that would be suitable , and we 've decided the best thing is on the shipping containers , they 're water proof , they 're vandal proof , and they 're recycled as well , which helps .
3 Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross .
4 There would , therefore , be the anomalous situation that half of the Scottish Bus Group would be subject to a statutory form of supervision which did not apply to the other half and that would be unsatisfactory .
5 I may lose them and that would be terrible !
6 And that would be terrible for him .
7 And that would be depressing , to say the least . ’
8 You know if er you know if federal government says well we think it 'd be a good idea to set up a erm you know a national space agency er NASA and all these other wonderful things , you know , and all the people in congress say great idea , great idea er we 'll have to have a launching site , we 'll have to have a launching site in Florida er cos it 'd be good to get one next to the water otherwise the rockets might come down and hit people and that would be unfortunate so we 'll agree there has to be a seaboard state but Flo well we 'll choose Florida cos the weather 's nice and you can play tennis all the year round so it 's a good idea and then we have to have mission control , right ?
9 And that would be dreadful for you , Rincewind , because in the weeks that remained before the Empire 's huge mercenary fleet arrived certain of my servants would occupy themselves about your person in the hope that the avenging captains , on their arrival , might find their anger tempered by the sight of your still-living body .
10 And that would be alright in a , in a bathroom you know
11 And that would be disastrous .
12 Mr Kirkwood predicted : ‘ It will either get adequate support to allow it to make progress , or it will be unable to continue , and that would be disastrous for companies like Orde . ’
13 Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated .
14 And that would mean having to borrow someone else 's name , and that might be embarrassing .
15 And that 'll be right on , right on
16 Right this guy 's really important and that 'll be helpful , Prince Charles book .
17 And that 'll be good for her as well cos it 'll mean that she 'll meet and Craig
18 Some pictures mi , and that 'll be animated like that , games would be like that .
19 And that 'll be nice and dry and warm for us both .
20 I mean we can look forward to going there , not every day of course , but once a week perhaps , and that 'll be nice .
21 And that 'll be nice !
22 It was , in fact , the second international conference on Evolutionary Biology , not that it 's anything to do with what I 'm now saying , but the next one is actually going to be right here in 1985 and that 'll be nice .
23 because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on
24 Because just as I was saying , that Freud 's view was that , okay , there 's the id and that may be Hobbesian , but there 's also the ego , which if you like is , is more kind of Rousseauness it 's pro-social , and therefore I would say Freud is not a pessimistic , or an optimistic social thinker , but something in between .
25 And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system .
26 One , one of the things that I think will be in value to you , once the systems in place , is to have some standard agenda items for the quality committee meeting and that may be sensible as being one of them .
27 ‘ Otherwise , it will be a matter of the Queen 's Conscience in the Division of Chancery , and that will be expensive , ’ he said finally .
28 And that will be good news for all waterway users .
29 And that will be welcome .
30 This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine
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