Example sentences of "would be [art] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 'd be a release for her .
2 There 'd be a search for her an' all in another five minutes .
3 ‘ There 'd be no room for one 's clothes , ’ said Lili , ‘ not with all those tablecloths and napkins . ’
4 Well , chummy , my scores are so extensive there 'd be no room for your pifling efforts .
5 You could n't have one without the other or there 'd be no room for us all .
6 He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing .
7 I have not yet concluded the exploration , and I think that it would be a mistake for me to make any premature statement about our next intentions , but I shall keep the House informed .
8 It would be a mistake for anyone to infer that Boulestin was a man who had no more sense than to attempt amateur cooking in his own restaurant .
9 For one thing , it would be a chance for her to escape some of the tension in the house .
10 That would be a surprise for your da , would n't it ?
11 I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’
12 ‘ There would be a reason for it .
13 Well , maybe the IRA would be a match for them after all .
14 If we must have ‘ classics ’ let us accept James Steel Smith 's definition of a book that ‘ provides some special imaginative experience which the child is not likely to get from other sources — or at least in the same degree of intensity — and which ‘ it would be a shame for him to miss ’ ( 1967 , p. 121 ) .
15 It would be a task for which a court would be ill-equipped , involving as it would the need to consider the interests of the locality as a whole and the plaintiff 's and county council 's plans in respect of it .
16 One of them said : ‘ A one per cent rise would be a disaster for our members . ’
17 Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me .
18 The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme .
19 What would be a theme for someone seeking a highly structured environment ?
20 In most other environments , however , such acute ears would be a disadvantage for their owners would be deafened .
21 A tall , fair woman with legs as long as Julia Roberts ' , she would be a catch for his grand party .
22 There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband .
23 It would be no problem for her to make a meal for two , or suggest he bring a take-away , and , prior to this morning , she felt she probably would have agreed to that .
24 There would be no mercy for her now .
25 There would be no sleep for him tonight .
26 In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself .
27 Hope and foreboding struggled in him and drove him , and there would be no peace for him until he saw his father 's grave immaculate and at peace still , and knew quite certainly that Isambard had lied .
28 I believe that millions of people in this country will acknowledge that there would be no choice for them if there were a Labour Government .
29 Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) .
30 He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision .
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