Example sentences of "would not [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any activity taking place around the refurbished buildings would be carefully controlled and would not be troublesome . |
| 2 | But he warned that correcting the mistakes of the present administration would not be easy . |
| 3 | There were others in the party , however , who made it clear that Mr Taylor 's path to re-adoption would not be easy . |
| 4 | So the creation of a pan-European standard would not be easy — but neither would it be impossible . |
| 5 | The name had to be changed , but it would not be easy . |
| 6 | To storm across the stream , uphill , and through the enemy line , would not be easy . |
| 7 | The pupil-teacher ratio ( PTR ) and the contact ratio ( the time teachers spend directly teaching as opposed to preparing and marking work ) might be regarded as inputs and , in addition to the examples taken from the Audit Commission report , outputs might include punctuality and values and attitudes acquired by the time the pupils leave school — though the latter would not be easy to quantify . |
| 8 | The role of a professional matchmaker — essentially what a TEC or Chamber would do — would not be easy . |
| 9 | In ordinary flowing speech , the whole sentence happens so quickly that , even if you held the speaker firmly by the throat , it would not be easy to spot vibration of quickly passing consonant sounds . |
| 10 | Welcoming Mr Yeltsin , Mr Major warned Russia 's journey to freedom would not be easy . |
| 11 | The helium-3 is what Palmer was trying to produce as it was the presence of this gas in the atmosphere that had stimulated his idea in the first place , but detecting it would not be easy . |
| 12 | This would not be easy , for beneath the surface of the dictatorship Spanish politics had been undergoing a dramatic transformation . |
| 13 | Such ideas would not be easy to implement . |
| 14 | He took a deep breath and went after his master , knowing the explanation ahead would not be easy . |
| 15 | The Young King , as he was called , must have known that it would not be easy to persuade his father to give up any of his power and revenues . |
| 16 | She would not be easy to miss . |
| 17 | And while Scocozza was optimistic that Virgin 's request would eventually be granted , he warned that ‘ it would not be easy ’ , and encouraged Virgin to exert pressure on ‘ decisionmakers ’ . |
| 18 | She would not be easy — then so much the more fun , the greater test for his skills . |
| 19 | ‘ It would not be easy to raise the capital needed , ’ she said at length . |
| 20 | Yet she had known from the start that he would not be easy to keep ; he was a man deeply in love , relentlessly loyal to that one love , with no room for any other woman . |
| 21 | Prince Charles declared as early as 1969 that his choice of bride would not be easy . |
| 22 | To re-define charity by statute on the lines of existing law would not be easy and might well confuse rather than clarify the law , for the essential difficulties connected with benefit to the public require more explanation and analysis than is convenient in an Act of Parliament . |
| 23 | From the word go the eventual winners from Sligo/Mullingar knew that their task would not be easy when they encountered Dundalk . |
| 24 | He had changed her and changing back would not be easy . |
| 25 | Now that she had met Silas Wilder , Lucy realised it would not be easy to persuade him to visit his stepmother , and once again she wondered why she had been stupid enough to have allowed herself to become involved in this situation . |
| 26 | It would not be easy to effect the transition that Labour suggests by Government sleight of hand . |
| 27 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 28 | It would not be easy , nothing any more is easy . |
| 29 | Coming from a semi-professional level to full Leeds player would not be easy for him but given time he could make it . |
| 30 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |