Example sentences of "would [verb] be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 3 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 4 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 5 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |
| 6 | the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer . |
| 7 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 8 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 9 | It would have been quite a sexy story if it was true — lots of money involved . |
| 10 | This would have been quite a popular route . |
| 11 | So there w would have been quite a tradition of music as well . |
| 12 | Under Section 37 of Britain 's Mental Health Act , he would have been legally a free man if he had remained at large for another hour . |