Example sentences of "[pron] would be [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If site 194 is released for extending the area I would be grateful to be advised as soon as is practical so that I can discuss details with the Forestry Commission . |
| 2 | ‘ I would be delighted to be able to tell you , ’ Mr Kinnock began . |
| 3 | Heseltine/Kinnock : Yes , well I would be delighted to be able to tell you . |
| 4 | It is — Some of my hon. Friends are not as generous as I would be prepared to be . |
| 5 | I think I would be happy to be driven by her , which ism ore that I feel about some , these days . |
| 6 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 7 | You would think she would be glad to be interrupted . ’ |
| 8 | Or did he believe she would be afraid to be alone in the forest ? |
| 9 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |
| 10 | Oh yes there would be you 'd a year you would be supposed to be not very much . |
| 11 | ‘ We would be delighted to be vehicle for this to happen . ’ |
| 12 | I certainly recall visiting residential and nursing homes in my constituency of which one could genuinely say that one would be pleased to be a member of that community . |
| 13 | No doubt the jury would have been interested to hear that the victim had convictions for offences of dishonesty , and conceivably even more impressed ( though in law they would be wrong to be ) to learn that she had in the past tried to stab a policeman . |
| 14 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 15 | ( This can be translated as ‘ He would be unable to be killed ’ : the final — ti represents the same morpheme as — dü ) . |
| 16 | When he died , when they found out what he had done , he would be lucky to be buried at all . |
| 17 | But he would be happy to be ‘ Godfather ’ to the project . |
| 18 | ‘ It will be a good-looking pig , but it would be terrible to be a child with a face like that . ’ |
| 19 | It would be useful to be able to separate patients into good and poor prognostic groups . |
| 20 | Benjamin said : ‘ It would be tremendous to be Yorkshire 's overseas player . ’ |
| 21 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 22 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 23 | It would be embarrassing to be given a gift if one had n't bought one in return . |
| 24 | It would be embarrassing to be shot before we were introduced . ’ |
| 25 | It would be great to be the very Unwise Woman on occasions . |
| 26 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
| 27 | It would be satisfying to be able to list examples of phonological differences between accents in the area of stress and intonation , but unfortunately , straightforward examples are not available ; we do not yet know enough about the phonological functions of stress and intonation , and too little work has been done on comparing accents in terms of these factors . |
| 28 | It would be good to be greeted as you walked along by smiling creatures lying along the pavements . |
| 29 | In one sense , in a report about ‘ environmental scanning ’ , it would be good to be able to report that those engaged in that activity had solved this problem of making the information that they deliver , directly usable by those to whom it is delivered . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |