Example sentences of "would be [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm sure there 'd be few objections to such a worthwhile cause . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it would be much consolation to someone being made into spaghetti in a black hole to know that his particles might survive . |
| 3 | If , for example , the retailer required a supply of cards for Mother 's Day , they would be little use to him if they arrived afterwards . |
| 4 | These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold . |
| 5 | Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial . |
| 6 | And , although it must be said that if the needs suggested by the report were met there would be many changes to existing reporting practices , it is also true that many of the needs rationalize the existing complexities of governmental accounting reports . |
| 7 | There would be some opposition to American bases , he said , but most people face the prospect with equanimity . |
| 8 | Not only would accommodation and compromise between these various interests be desirable , but also it may be that the best solution would be some alternative to a motorway , or some alternative route not already considered . |
| 9 | It occurred to Rostov that there would be more point to the information if he also had some control over the pod 's guidance system , but at least he now knew where he was going . |
| 10 | This link would affect far fewer people , there would be less disturbance to Darlington and its residents , and the bypass would be utilised fully . |
| 11 | History and the action-replay would be less kind to Scottish keepers in the years to come . |
| 12 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |