Example sentences of "would do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be like taking London 's M25 or Washington 's beltway , in the hope of getting somewhere ; all you would do is go round and round in circles . |
| 2 | In fact , the first thing most such hypothetical new European states would do is , almost certainly , apply for admission to the European Community , which would once again limit their sovereign rights , though in a different manner from their previous situation . |
| 3 | If we had this up and running , the sort of thing that we would do is put together a package |
| 4 | All it would do is slow down the rate of change . |
| 5 | Right , well see how things go , what I would do is enquire in about a week whether that letter has come back and then we can arrange to see you . |
| 6 | ‘ But what I would do is try and make it more popular , with special promotions and so on . |
| 7 | Erm , so , if you really want to erm , make sure there 's no deadwood , what you would do is do a range format reset of the range you want to erase first of all . |
| 8 | What you would do is copy a blank cell . |
| 9 | Erm , cos what you would do is you would er , reset that whole range , that whole range , that whole range , that one and that one , that one , that one , that one . |
| 10 | What it would do is close our collieries , place this country at the mercy of international coal traders , and give Britain an added trade deficit of about £900 million per annum , for a hypothetical saving of just over £1.25 per week for the average household . |
| 11 | All we would do is transfer people from rural districts to the ranks of the unemployed in urban ones . |
| 12 | The second point being that erm if a figure was to be identified for Greater York , we 'd feel that this would er unduly interfere with our duties and responsibilities as a District Council to allocate land in our district , cos in effect what it would do is direct us to making a housing allocation in one particular settlement , Shipton , we feel that 's our responsibility not the County Council . |
| 13 | Well , yes it should , it should be , and there 's some good figures in there that you may want to tell the students about , and then what I would do is recommend that they have a look at it because the current issue . |
| 14 | How can we criticize it , how well does it actually fit into what happened in the real world , they just want little bits of information but not too much depth on anything but always remember empirical evidence examples are very important what I would do is using those examples or la last year 's exam paper , practise , practise the short answers because you ca n't write very much detail in it so it 's a good idea to have some idea about how much you can write , then your expectations will be changed okay . |
| 15 | Erm what I would do is go into a situation I 'd still dress as smartly you know and all the rest of it |
| 16 | All they w all they 're saying they would do is restore it back to what it was . |
| 17 | Now what we would do is put into a flexible trust , okay ? |
| 18 | What I have said that I would do is to consider what your Lordships have said to see if there is any way in which we can meet the problem . |
| 19 | I think all I would do is just to wrap it up bow , yeah , buy some of that cheap stuff |
| 20 | Tell you what I would do is mix some slightly different colour green |
| 21 | And what they would do is have a look and say ooh that 's , ooh that 's about your size , that 's about it . |
| 22 | I mean what we would do is , is very rigorously look at er more of whatever was going to be discharged from any company who , who came into our region . |
| 23 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 24 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 25 | One thing was certain , ethics or no ethics , if she ever ran over a cat again she 'd drive on , the last thing she would do was go and confess . |
| 26 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 27 | What she would do was write a note of apology , giving her name and address and telephone number , and secure it behind one of the Bentley 's windscreen wipers . |
| 28 | What he would do was lend Haynes 500 , on a very short-term basis . |
| 29 | What she would do was exit with as much style as possible , given the situation . |
| 30 | moving off the shelves and into the shop and , what we would do was erm deli people now do er , stock an order by computer and , and people like Sainsburys were doing that in the seventies , you know , and they would actually work over er work on erm data erm , from their computer and order er erm you know , okay , they 'd be an event at the weekend or something and they 'd , they 'd of , increase it or something , but they would technically work out exactly what the throughput of certain items were . |