Example sentences of "would be [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 2 | This is just what I thought it 'd be like on the streets of Chicago . |
| 3 | Do n't you think that at eight at eighty four you 'd be like to be chasing the girls with your wig on . |
| 4 | The winner of the President 's Cup , as it would be for at least three more years , was Artisan Secretary and Club Greensman , Bill Steptoe . |
| 5 | McCloy would want the lion 's share of whatever the load realised and if Hatton , a mere decoy , got five hundred , the three henchmen would be worth at least five hundred apiece . |
| 6 | He thinks that this would be worth at least £7,000 if he sold the garage tomorrow . |
| 7 | Taking the present bullion value of gold as 400 dollars , the ducat or florin would be worth in present British money about £30 . |
| 8 | Most of the market seems concentrated in the er initially in the two litre area for er to the centre of our sales would be in in that area . |
| 9 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 10 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 11 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 12 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 13 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 14 | Can any of your readers imagine what it would be like to be thrown into a ‘ concentration camp ’ for 20 years without trial , and , then the door of that awful place being opened and you are told you may go ? |
| 15 | We wonder what it would be like to be an oak tree , a house , a mountain , even a thunder cloud . |
| 16 | I doubt it , because it is inconceivable , just as you can not imagine what it would be like to be blind from birth and then gifted with sight ( but of course I can ) . |
| 17 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , I always wondered what it would be like to be a Canadian , growing up just across Lake Ontario from Toronto . |
| 19 | His voice was courteous to the point of diffidence , and Nenna , giving way a little , let herself imagine what it would be like to be on Richard 's staff , and to be directed in everything else by Louise , and to ebb and flow without volition , in the warmth of love and politeness . |
| 20 | He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time . |
| 21 | We get some glimpse of what conditions would be like without water by observing modern deserts , which commonly fluctuate from +45°C to around zero , in the course of twelve hours ! |
| 22 | ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it . |
| 23 | Adrian Henri ponders on what life would be like without his loved one — how colourless , dull and ordinary it would seem . |
| 24 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 25 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 26 | That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does . |
| 27 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 28 | He drove in silence then and I closed my eyes , pretending I was asleep , my head nodding , and all the time my mind reaching forward to the future , trying to visualise what it would be like on the boat . |
| 29 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 30 | Talk over the way you feel with your husband ; imagine what life would be like with another child and think about the advantages and disadvantages . |