Example sentences of "the [noun] would be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If turf which has long been mown , and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds , be let to grow , the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous , though fully grown plants ; thus out of 20 species growing on a little plot of mown turf ( 3 feet by 4 feet ) 9 species perished , from the other species being allowed to grow up freely ’ ( The Origin of Species ) . |
| 2 | Treurnicht rejected de Klerk 's view that the referendum would be the final test of white attitudes to the reform process . |
| 3 | Thus the decision would be the same today , if the facts of Helby v. Matthews ( a piano ) were again to come before the courts . |
| 4 | But the family solicitor said if the whole the happened again , as Jehovah 's Witnesses the decision would be the same , blood would be refused . |
| 5 | In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation . |
| 6 | We might say that we were going out ‘ into the light ’ , but here again the light would be the general environment within which we did everything else . |
| 7 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 8 | Were Britain to join the narrow rate band , the effect would be the same , and the economic dividend is there to see . |
| 9 | In the early days it had looked as if the directors would be the key men in Hollywood and from all over America men anxious to use the format to say something had been attracted to the movies . |
| 10 | The wood would be the first to burn but you would n't feel much . |
| 11 | But who can doubt that , if the two races were to ‘ separate ’ , the blacks would be the poorer ? |
| 12 | Even so , all developments were to be costed as if the NHS would be the sole funding agent and that no local authority or housing corporation money would come in . |
| 13 | Side bets were made that the Lady would be the next to leave the board . |
| 14 | If he really wanted to keep this room a secret , having no window onto the outside would be the best way , surely ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 16 | Local authorities would decide the amount of this charge ; the charge would be the same for everyone and all adults would pay it . |
| 17 | So that erm I mean if I recommended a Norwich Union income plan , and you nipped into Nottingham to buy , the charge would be the same , whether you bought it from me or from Norwich . |
| 18 | So they they do they test for the for the hill would be the first thing . |
| 19 | The Bolivians had planned that the king would be the first to be given a coca leaf as he toured Expo , which has pavilions from 112 nations . |
| 20 | The consultant whom the client first met to discuss the assignment would be the same consultant who would undertake the work . |
| 21 | The other assumption was that the performance of the sows would be the same on both systems while acknowledging the need for extra feed at 100kg a sow in order to maintain condition outdoors . |
| 22 | She said the price 'd be the same . |
| 23 | The Unwins who received the trophy , the cheque and the speeches from the president of the racecourse and the top brass of the Jockey Club ; whose memories of the day would be the sweetest . |
| 24 | It is very unlikely that the details would be the same for the two recipients . |
| 25 | If there was no relationship at all , the spread of the residuals would be the same as originally , and there would thus be no reduction ; we would say that there was no correlation between the two variables . |
| 26 | The probe would be the first US craft to visit Mars since 1976 . |
| 27 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 28 | The media would be the best bodyguard of all . |
| 29 | Its main principles would be : ( i ) Czechoslovakia would be a federative state consisting of the two sovereign and equal republics of the Czech Lands and Slovakia ; ( ii ) the two republics would be linked voluntarily by the free will of their citizens , as expressed in a joint declaration of coexistence ; ( iii ) the fundamental document of the state would be the federal constitution ; and ( iv ) all powers not explicitly given to the federation in the constitution would belong to the republics . |
| 30 | The cost to the state would be the same . |