Example sentences of "one would [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the room wo n't be described in such depressing detail , but all the favourites one would expect are here — the rack , the manacles hanging from the ceiling , lots of wooden staves and buckled leather strapping , an Iron Maiden , and so on . |
| 2 | In fact , if — 4.6 billion years ago — one had to place a bet on which planet in the Solar System would sustain life , one would have been best advised to put money on one of the gas giants . |
| 3 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 4 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 5 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 6 | The larger one would have been more convenient , but somehow it was imbued too strongly with Fen 's personality . |
| 7 | ‘ But one would have been enough . ’ |
| 8 | One would have been enough , if they had any good arguments or data which er they did n't have . |