Example sentences of "would [adv] [be] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a knowledge of good and evil , for example , there would only be ignorance and destruction . |
| 2 | ‘ Afterwards , there would only be dislike and resentment , because you do n't care for my feelings at all . |
| 3 | And then you 'd come back later and have a a sort of tea , but it would still be bread and jam , you know what I mean . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have meant , Inspector , ’ explained Angelina , ‘ that Sir Thomas would still be chairman when the next Year of the Lion began . |
| 5 | It would still be touch and go for the agency . |
| 6 | The first rehearsals of an opéra would often be chaos if his talents , or activity , did not clarify the performance . |
| 7 | This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable |
| 8 | The visitor would understandably back off quickly and there would either be pandemonium or an utter , stunned silence . |
| 9 | It was race , and there would never be peace while that discrimination lasted . |