Example sentences of "be that [pron] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did they have any erm raids that were that you 'd think were directed towards the airport at all , were there any incidents of this kind ? |
| 2 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 3 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 4 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 5 | Had we had her account available our guess is that it would have been expressed in such a way as to suggest a quite different kind of story , where personal rather than biological matters were at issue . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , although I welcome the economic measures to assist the Soviet Union — granted , as he rightly says , because of the courage of President Yeltsin in implementing his reforms — the other side of the coin is that it would have been a terrible mistake if we had jumped the gun and granted the assistance before the reforms were implemented ? |
| 7 | He 's won umpteen Grands Prix and if Dalgety could have managed a tighter mechanical edge last season the general consensus is that he would have been world champion . |
| 8 | If the director had been gay my guess is that he 'd have been stereotyped . ’ |