Example sentences of "would [adv] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contained questions that most citizens , unaware that numbers did behave , would rather not be asked . |
| 2 | Some commentators have suggested that a movement of less than 5% in the price of the shares in question would most probably be regarded as not material . |
| 3 | Such disputes in BR would most probably be settled by ultimate recourse to the Railway Staff National Tribunal . |
| 4 | Defeat would leave the Donegal men three points adrift and with three difficult fixtures remaining , they would most certainly be facing the grim prospect of another year in the lower division . |
| 5 | I would see them in Sweetmary every once in a while and they would most always be drunk . |
| 6 | This is reinforced if the intention of Parliament in passing the Act was that deficits on internally generated revenue would most likely be incurred , not merely casually , but deliberately as a consequence of treating transport as a social service . |
| 7 | However because ore is a noun and are is a verb , this error would most likely be spotted by the syntactic analysis , because ore would not fit into the same word position as are in the sentence . |
| 8 | Of course no one pointed out then that in nine out of ten such cases the body would most likely be found on the beach sooner or later , maybe ten or twenty miles along the coast . |
| 9 | From a combination of three levels of professional development — unreflective self-evaluation based on practical knowledge , self-evaluation as practical deliberation and self-evaluation as action research — it was assumed that teaching quality would most noticeably be improved through deliberation and action research . |
| 10 | But the decisions made fascinating reading and would presumably still be dragged into any legal proceedings today , even if they were not regarded as binding . |
| 11 | Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe , because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now . |
| 12 | As she removed her wedding dress and put it away , she knew that it would only ever be worn at Christmas and other times of equal importance . |
| 13 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 14 | If as much effort had been devoted to providing good levels of insulation as went into other recent advances in building practice , we would all now be living in highly energy-efficient homes , and paying much smaller heating bills . |
| 15 | John of Reading reported that in September 1359 , after hearing mass in St Stephen 's Chapel , the king said that he would much rather be buried where the Confessor , Henri III and Edward I lay than at Cologne . |
| 16 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 17 | It had done very badly in the 1967 local elections , and in November Wilson at last devalued the pound — assuring a somewhat puzzled nation that ‘ the pound in your pocket ’ would somehow not be affected . |
| 18 | The chord would , however , probably ‘ sound lower than it is ’ owing to its deep and dense sonority , and the absence of the lower octave would thus hardly be felt . |
| 19 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 20 | Ed Grainger continued : ‘ This clause about a British Open win would normally never be written into the contract of a no-hoper like Harley . |
| 21 | This dense material would more commonly be seen in aquarium filtration , and may require a pre-filter brush set-up to avoid frequent clogging . |
| 22 | It is this being , the power behind the throne who acts as the unifying force of all the ‘ lesser ’ deities , who would more appropriately be described as the God of Hinduism . |
| 23 | It is clear that fires in the storages discussed would more readily be controlled by well-designed and appropriate automatic systems than by fire brigade action because : |
| 24 | If only the police and the criminal could reach an agreement on punishment or rehabilitation there and then , the sergeant sometimes thought , justice would more often be done . |
| 25 | The most numerous would more accurately be described as clairsentients ; sensing things through their ‘ third eye ’ or ‘ sixth sense ’ . |
| 26 | Palestinian flags would be raised on minarets and church spires , road blocks would again be erected , and life in all its aspects would once again be run by the local leadership . |
| 27 | The entry would be reversed in the new financial year so that the accounts would once again be recording commitments . |
| 28 | Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed . |
| 29 | Neighbours : The Scott and Charlene Love Story , in which Kylie would once more be seen in oilstained overalls as the tomboy mechanic from Ramsay Street , would damage her new sophisticated image , they claimed . |
| 30 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |