Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you 'd be far more at home somewhere on the high seas with a scarf around your head and a cutlass at your belt . ’ |
| 3 | I told Mr Miller at the pet shop I 'd be there soon after surgery . ’ |
| 4 | He is in London with Jacob , his wife Judy and daughter Julia , 10 , and before they set off for the Odeon , Leicester Square , last night , he said : ‘ None of us would be here today without Jake 's idea . ’ |
| 5 | She had never dreamed he would be so much like Ben . |
| 6 | The crossing to Ostend was uneventful , with Fabia , when not hoping with all she had that everything would be all right with Barney , trying to come to terms with the fact that , despite having an innate aversion to lies and deception , she had just about agreed to practise both . |
| 7 | The magic word that justifies those doubts is ‘ phase ’ or ‘ period ’ , as if a stage has been reached where God is no longer necessary : But the key motif in them all is ingratitude , a moral , spiritual and emotional insensitivity to the reality of what we once were and would be now apart from God . |