Example sentences of "i would not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , no , I 'd not be able to . ’ |
| 2 | Mr. Bill Walker : I have made it clear that I would not be unhappy if Stagecoach ended up with the Strathtay area , but that I would prefer Strathtay bus company . |
| 3 | Before the examination , one of the commissioners told me that I would not be one of the winners because the positions had already been assigned to others who were , for the most part , assistants to the various commission members . |
| 4 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 5 | Even if it should emerge that Moses survived longer than Methuselah and stayed alive in a monastery on top of Mount Sinai writing all the other later books of the Bible , including the Gospels , I would not be upset . |
| 6 | But I would not be true to myself if I did not record my own thanks to all who serve on the Board for their hard and devoted work and at this time , to take a moment to thank the retiring vice convenor Bill for his work , his prayers , his support , his wisdom and his fellowship over the many years that he and I have served together . |
| 7 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 8 | For my part , I would not be prepared to accept that as a proposition of law . |
| 9 | I would not be responsible for my actions if I saw him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would not be surprised to see Footsie ( FT-SE 100 index ) off another 50 points , ’ says Fred Carr of fund manager Capel-Cure Myers . |
| 11 | I would not be surprised if today there are a number of people who , though fully Christian , have never allowed justification by faith to be an experiential reality in their life . |
| 12 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 13 | Ecclesiastical fashion is slower in its cycles of change , but after the short sleeves and jeans of Vatican II have worn thin , I would not be surprised to see a few fedoras perched on the heads of priests — perhaps even with a drooping moustache . |
| 14 | Going by your ‘ concern ’ for the ‘ targets of racist violence ’ , not to speak of your capacity to understand what constitutes racism or why the ‘ ANL and the ARA ’ are both anti-black , I would not be surprised if one day you are hauled before the black community as a prime suspect involved in a series of racist attacks against the image of the black person in the street . |
| 15 | I would not be surprised to see smart Flat performer Lift And Load make the hot favourite work hard for his success . |
| 16 | I would not be surprised , though , if Fergie 's initial call to Howard Wilkinson on Wednesday was to inquire about Lee Chapman . |
| 17 | ‘ I would not be surprised if that happened because of the quality of their players and such influences as Bryan Robson and Lee Sharpe waiting to come in . ’ |
| 18 | If Craig Charleston said that he never wanted to see another Spitfire project , I would not be surprised , I 'll wager that he does though ! |
| 19 | Here at Whaddon I have allowed his talent to blossom and I would not be surprised to see the League big boys sniffing after him before Christmas , and Darren to be a regular in Barnet reserves by the end of the season . |
| 20 | In fact I would not be surprised if she had run . |
| 21 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 22 | He ordered the crowds of sightseers to go back to their homes , so that the work of the country could continue and I would not be annoyed . |
| 23 | I would not be interested in leaving Middlesbrough until I have got Middlesbrough as far as Middlesbrough can go . ’ |
| 24 | I would not be frightened of that . |
| 25 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 26 | My other main concern was that I really felt that I would not be able to do my job any more once I went back . |
| 27 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 28 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 29 | If I could n't then I would not be able to write my sort of books for children . |
| 30 | I would not be able to find it again . |