Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] would be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it 's not chickenfeed when you start to er , or maybe it would be chickenfeed |
| 2 | As she stood barefoot on the cold boards , she comforted herself with the thought that soon it would be spring , daffodils would raise proud trumpets to nod in the soft breezes and in the fields beyond the town lambs would be born . |
| 3 | Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God 's help for the sowing and future harvest . |
| 4 | From this angle at least no light showed therein , at this hour , an encouraging sign , although undoubtedly there would be guards on duty . |
| 5 | It was Nimrod , it was Nimrod with Univers , it was , except occasionally there 'd be Grot nine , not because you felt they wanted to use Grot nine , but because they 'd said well what 's this one that has n't got serifs . |
| 6 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
| 7 | Now he was dead he was no longer Jack Monro but only Syl 's father , the dead husband of Mrs Monro , and soon I would be Margaret Monro . |
| 8 | and you go up this thing that winds in and out and like there 'd be cockerels sitting on the , on the little fences you have to go round , trying to peck you to death , er I was like only tiny , you know , it was just like |
| 9 | And now it would be Mosley 's job to reconcile it all , to guide this 20th century sporting monster towards the next millennium . |
| 10 | ‘ Because he had not fully realized that suspicion would still follow him , and now it would be suspicion of murder . |
| 11 | They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again . |
| 12 | And then there 'd be clothes for Anne . |
| 13 | In the spring when the f the daffodils and and the snowdrops started coming , and then there 'd be bird 's nests and all the different flowers , the farmers would start sowing , cultivating , mares would have foals , they had the harvest . |
| 14 | Cos otherwise it would be marmit . |
| 15 | cos otherwise it would be frost . |
| 16 | It began to be a test — the test — of whether he could still live with himself once the months ( but probably it would be years ) of imprisonment were over . |
| 17 | But maybe it would be years before the Gunmint bothered to tell it to do anything . |
| 18 | My mother was n't too pleased either because sometimes there would be spillages on her carpets . |