Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was grateful for not only was I four years older than he but I would also be the oldest of the potential candidates . |
| 2 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 3 | He desired to subjugate the whole of Moslem Spain and to integrate this vast tract of land into his own kingdom , which would then be the single greatest state in the country . |
| 4 | At this rate she would not be the same . |
| 5 | She would still be the same whatever she wore . |
| 6 | Nay , she would never be the same again . |
| 7 | This dynamic man had entered her life with an explosive force , and he had damaged her secure little world , altering it so drastically that she would never be the same Claudia who had happily spent her days and most of her evenings designing dresses for other girls to wear . |
| 8 | If you did n't have our full confidence then you would n't be the front runner on our star programme . |
| 9 | You would n't be the first one through these doors , ’ he nodded towards the main entrance and smiled broadly . |
| 10 | Or do you realise you would just be the same person , two stone lighter ? ) |
| 11 | It was envisaged by Parliament that the services might be developed in a more selective way , becoming available only to those who chose to have such a facility , and it was contemplated that there would not be the same obligations of good taste and balance that are required of existing television broadcasters . |
| 12 | There would also be the smallest gap possible between the base of the roundabout and the ground . |
| 13 | There would also be the high workings on Black Scar ( above Levers Water ) between Great How Crags and Little How Crags . |
| 14 | There would also be the valuable situation where conflicting parties would be able to resolve , without humiliation , the impasse into which they are locked , for none would be required to accept the religious justification of the other . |
| 15 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 16 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 17 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 18 | Nothing would ever be the same again . |
| 19 | I still could n't quite believe that nothing would ever be the same again , |
| 20 | Cut them they would n't be the exact size |
| 21 | In ‘ running battles ’ they would always be the last to retreat . |
| 22 | If Tim were guilty and told her so , he would not be the first person who had admitted a crime to a journalist . |
| 23 | Earlier , Nick Skelton won the Christmas Knockout and the Six Bar competition to ensure he would not be the only Everest rider without an outright win . |
| 24 | Skelton ensured he would not be the only Everest team member without an outright win by beating new colleague John Whitaker in their sponsors ' Christmas Knockout . |
| 25 | ‘ And he would n't be the first man to become deeply jealous when he sees another man apparently usurping his role as a father . ’ |
| 26 | It was Barbara , of course , who had told him , but he would n't be the first one to mention her name . |
| 27 | He would n't be the first homosexual man to go to bed with a woman in the hope of proving he was n't gay . |
| 28 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 29 | There was nothing illegal in this and , indeed , if Joyce 's story of having been born in County Galway were accepted , he would merely be the returning exile . |
| 30 | He would never be the luckless , dirty , shrivelled-looking man in the stocks — put there likely enough for stealing no more than an egg . |