Example sentences of "would be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the boy was signalling to his mates and any moment there 'd be an ambush . |
| 2 | ‘ If it was dogs driven from pillar to post there 'd be an uproar . ’ |
| 3 | If I did n't recognise it , ’ says Neneh , ‘ I 'd be an unhappy person . |
| 4 | If he were a plant , he 'd be an exotic cactus . |
| 5 | ‘ Without welfare , ’ said Callahan , ‘ there 'd be an Hawaiian liberation army camped in the hills , armed to the teeth with machine guns . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've always said that she 'd be an opera singer , did n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps you 'd be an even more valuable member of our gathering if you 'd read a little more Silence fell as the animals considered Owl 's remarks . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd be an idiot if I thought there would n't be more offers in the three-and-a-half years of Hirst 's contract here . |
| 9 | But they did n't say there 'd be an arrest soon . ’ |
| 10 | When he sat down he said , because he felt guilty , ‘ I thought it 'd be an adventure for Henrietta . ’ |
| 11 | It 'd be an interesting exercise would n't it . |
| 12 | I 'd be an old lady . |
| 13 | Attracted to the big ape she had n't been , but she 'd be an all-out liar if she tried to pretend she had n't enjoyed his kisses . |
| 14 | And the hotels he put up , he bought them in Glasgow , there 'd be an exhibition hotel made of wood , built in Glasgow . |
| 15 | very moving but we had a big big time and of course when you 're eighteen , er it 'd be an adventure . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd be an idiot if I did n't , but no one 's ever wanted me to leave my job because of it ! ’ |
| 17 | She 'd be an idiot to imagine anything else , she decided , while making her way to the filing cabinet . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're very good — you 'd be an asset to any man 's business . ’ |
| 19 | No , but I could have seen a , there 'd be an almighty tantrums from the other two if Ji er |
| 20 | But I would of thought there 'd be an inside of a lid for that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 'd be an expert on him . |
| 23 | Such a measure would be an insult to our Faith ; it would without question prove to be gravely damaging to morality , private and public ; it would be , and would remain , a curse upon our country . |
| 24 | Then I would be an artisan , quietly learning my trade at the feet of a master and passing it on in turn to my apprentices . |
| 25 | Now that would be an adventure . |
| 26 | Specialised materials , which Tootal promised would be an engine of growth , has yet to prove its worth , though continued heavy investment could be blamed for a 40 per cent fall in profits . |
| 27 | Mr Honecker is up a pole and all the ladders offered him to climb down would be an admission of failure . |
| 28 | The town , with 36,000 inhabitants , would be an important strategic loss . |
| 29 | One might , as I usually do with one of his novels , quarrel mildly about his formal devices ; but that would be an irrelevant vanity . |
| 30 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |