Example sentences of "would [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it would been hot stuff you see to begin with . |
| 2 | Never — it would be electoral suicide . |
| 3 | The price of such an agreement , of course , would be electoral reform — which , purely incidentally , would give his party the balance of power after any election in the foreseeable future . |
| 4 | At the bottom would be little-used expressions and combinations , and at the other end would be uniform , predictable or fixed combinations such as clich s , sayings , metaphors , etc . |
| 5 | In August 1989 the official news agency Tass revealed that 46 per cent of the defence sector 's 1990 production would be civilian products , rising to 60 per cent in 1995 . |
| 6 | At first the PROFS proponents assumed 80% of use would be in-group communication . |
| 7 | It 's very much connected to late enlightenment notions that the only valid government would be representative government . |
| 8 | None describes him/her self as such in the party 's official literature — that would be inviting disaster at the ballot box — but they are not hard to spot . |
| 9 | This would be essential information for a CAPM approach to estimating the cost of capital for an SBU . |
| 10 | By the end of the week there would be hot water . |
| 11 | There would be hot coffee in the reception . |
| 12 | There would be blue sparks flying . |
| 13 | The only new techniques it could offer would be illegal ones . |
| 14 | There would be tremendous scope , therefore , for publications that tackled the more interesting , and perhaps relevant , topic of how plants and animals interrelate . |
| 15 | If we win against both Spain and Japan that could give us a shot against South Africa in the quarter-finals , which would be tremendous news for Scottish rugby back home ’ , said Rutherford . |
| 16 | As the site of Montagu House was within the area of the block plan design , the article asserted that neither the Duke nor Burn would be disinterested assessors . |
| 17 | Jeeta 's life would be living death and there was nowhere she could escape to . |
| 18 | Erm I think there would be environmental problems , I think there would be major problems of sustainability because quite clearly , er scale migration into North Yorkshire would be accompanied in significant past by back out er of North Yorkshire , particularly to Cleveland er and to West Yorkshire . |
| 19 | But the BR source warned that there would be environmental objections to the alternative route , which would have to cut across other parts of Kent and marshes in Essex . |
| 20 | We have never denied that there would be environmental costs — I hope that the hon. Member for Caerphilly ( Mr. Davies ) recognises that . |
| 21 | Total government spending was put at an estimated SR753,000 million , of which SR498,000 million would be civil expenditure . |
| 22 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 23 | If I tried — my dear , it would be civil war . |
| 24 | It would be mere superstition to attribute the increase in murders to the change of penalty and the increase in the rest of crime to some other cause or causes . |
| 25 | After an interlude , the man who would be sage returns with an acoustic guitar and offers chestnuts like ‘ Passionate Friends ’ for perusal . |
| 26 | In the above table all except the asterisked example would be legitimate planting spreads . |
| 27 | There would be loud applause for the suggestion from Labour Back Benchers , but he has my sympathy . |
| 28 | This would be undesirable behaviour in a transformer but is the essence of fluxgate operation . |
| 29 | It would be arrogant foolishness to ignore that experience and to start from scratch designing a stringing by ear . |
| 30 | Well I think ours would be broad I I P and T Q M I think , I mean . |