Example sentences of "[noun] would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the USRC was to create just such an impression as Disraeli had done — that Unionist action would be worth more than Liberal words — and they often quoted him with pride . |
| 2 | Immediately after my robbery I had thought all this action would be to my benefit . |
| 3 | It was decided that their successors would be of similar size and anew steel cutter was designed by Technical Branch with a length of 80 feet , a beam of 16 feet and a draft of 6 feet . |
| 4 | If he was caught , Ewan would be in deep trouble . |
| 5 | The renewal would be on an annual basis . |
| 6 | They yearned for a society where the surplus product of labour would be at the disposal not of idle capitalists or degenerate gentry but of expert administrators . |
| 7 | But life under Labour would be like a nuclear winter . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ To expect the Liberals to control Labour would be like asking Dad 's Army to restrain the Mongol Hordes . ’ |
| 9 | To expect the Liberals to control Labour would be like asking Dad 's Army to restrain the Mongol Hordes . ’ |
| 10 | And in fact the intention would be in effect that this will in fact like greenbelt and I would point to the Harrogate District er Harrogate Rural Area Study and er that 's been submitted by Harrogate Council as an example of er showing that that is the precise intention of this sort of policy . |
| 11 | A crossmember between these two braces helps ; people frequently put their legs back under their chair seats , and a cross brace between the front legs would be in the way . |
| 12 | Perhaps she had had polio so that one of her legs would be in irons . |
| 13 | Any minute David Fairfax would be on the doorstep . |
| 14 | Bear experts conclude that the only way to maintain a bear population in the Pyrenees would be by importing bears from other parts of Europe . |
| 15 | Even more streamlined for marine life were the ichthyosaurs ( 'fish lizards ' ) , which , as their name implies , include species that look remarkably fish-like , although perhaps the better analogy would be with the porpoises , a group of mammals that ‘ returned to the sea ’ , and may fill a similar role in modern seas to that of the ichthyosaurs in the Jurassic . |
| 16 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 17 | Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at . |
| 18 | He mentioned that the sum required for restoration of the monument would be in the range of £20 000 to £30 000 punts . |
| 19 | They now recognised that their plan to send some intelligent lads for education in farriery to such continental schools would be at best a rather feeble stopgap measure , while in any case the revolutionary situation in France was not favourable to the original Odiham plan . |
| 20 | The membership of the Board was public knowledge ; their business addresses would be in the American Who 's Who . |
| 21 | He expressed the opinion that the first defendant would be in breach of its duty to the plaintiffs ‘ if it were to agree to pay remuneration to the receiver which was plainly excessive . ’ |
| 22 | Her training in dissemination would be of help now . |
| 23 | The two offices would be on a ‘ similar site adjoining Charles Street , of which the Government was now in possession , with the exception of a very small portion indeed ’ , which would be the subject of another Bill to be introduced to Parliament . |
| 24 | A 1964 pound would be worth £8.96 today , so the £1228.46 for our Austin-Healey ( including overdrive , wire wheels , heater , telescopic steering column and seat belts ) equates to £11,006 . |
| 25 | Last night 's humiliating episode would be with her for a very long time . |
| 26 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 27 | Continued economic expansion and the widespread belief that Keynesian economic techniques provided governments with an effective tool for managing the economy had engendered the belief that the future would be like the present , but better , that economic growth would simply continue into the indefinite future , bringing more and greater benefits to all segments of society . |
| 28 | At least she had one thing to be thankful for , she consoled herself , seeing Veronica into a taxi in the Aldwych : she was in no doubt at all that Veronica would be in touch again . |
| 29 | A NAME like Pauline Gascoyne inevitably conjures an image of a bimbo Gazza in a GTi , to whom a diesel car would be about as socially acceptable as dandruff . |
| 30 | The frustration of life without a torch , illustrated by either a feature or a demonstration , could interest the men 's press , and special car fitments for fixing a torch inside the car would be of great interest to the motoring media . |