Example sentences of "thing would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But other things would be in a different category . |
| 2 | He was telling people how wonderful things would be in the future ; I want to see that future . |
| 3 | But I think of course we can all debate er the various individual proposals and I think if we were in control of the council not only of course would we have different policies but the sort of detailed matters which would come up in debate would be discussed in committee , things would be in the normal way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The best thing would be to s sort of say I do n't know but the sort of thing which came into my mind were questions like you know , Which accents do you think |
| 6 | The best thing would be for M Mitterrand to introduce constitutional reform reducing the presidential term from seven to five years and step down in 1993 . |
| 7 | The best thing would be for you to write out all the harmonies , in every key , making sure that you put in all the correct sharps and flats . |
| 8 | ‘ The simplest thing would be for you to write to STG and say you no longer wish them to represent you . |
| 9 | " Listen , Martha , the best thing would be for you to tell me about your worries . |
| 10 | ‘ He had asked the country for a mandate for Tariff Reform , this had been refused , and the honourable thing would be for him to resign at once . ’ |
| 11 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 12 | And she shuddered at the chore the whole thing would be in the winter — if she lasted that long — seeing that it was such a drag in the mildness of summer . |