Example sentences of "but [ex0] would be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 2 | But there would be new regulatory commissions and consumer councils for every utility , along with ombudsmen , and public interest commissioners appointed by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | Not only would there be great procedural difficulties in doing so , but there would be political difficulties . |
| 4 | On an arable farm with only a few cattle kept to make manure , little provision would be made for these animals , but there would be one or more barns , stables and shelters for carts . |
| 5 | Shop-workers ' wages would rise by £50 a year , but there would be 5,000 fewer of them than there are now . |
| 6 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 7 | ‘ I think there was a lot of loyalty and desire for the marriage to work out , particularly between Vicki and I. I mean , you 'd think that the two sisters would have bonded together against everyone , but there would be different … coalitions . |
| 8 | However , the line would cross Croydon Road and continue down Elmers End Road to the Beckenham boundary , but there would be connecting curves at the Robin Hood . |
| 9 | But there would be some D-D reactions in a reactor filled with deuterium and helium-3 , which do produce neutrons . |
| 10 | There would be no cuts in major services , but there would be some reductions in the community education service and cuts in payments to outside bodies . |
| 11 | ‘ I could build an electric lute , ’ Arthur continued , ‘ but there would be little point : no one is making music for electric lutes . ’ |
| 12 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 13 | My God , but there would be blood-letting this night . |
| 14 | The cost would be immeasurable , but there would be green on either side of Zayed 's desert highway in his lifetime . |