Example sentences of "[adj] would [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Pioneer is designed for road or light off road use this would n't be a problem . |
| 2 | This would n't be surprising in some ways , since it is not clear that the visual system is organized in the same way in all species . |
| 3 | There was a moment 's hesitation and then the woman said , ‘ This would n't be Joe , would it ? ’ |
| 4 | Obviously this would n't be quite enough — the rail rolling stock , for instance , has a higher initial cost ( but a longer lifespan ) . |
| 5 | In that case , this would n't be Trastevere but one of the districts to the south where those two lines go , Portuense or EUR . |
| 6 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 7 | ‘ You know this would n't be what your uncle meant when he wrote his will . |
| 8 | Catching a fleeting expression on Lucy 's face , she persisted with ominous calm , ‘ This would n't be the Guy Sterne whose name we 've just been dutifully worshipping at the board meeting , by any chance ? ’ |
| 9 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 10 | In sinking air even this would not be enough to allow for much choice and , of course , it assumes that the descent will be made over open countryside and not amongst hills or moorland . |
| 11 | It therefore required no feat of prophecy to assert that long before the twentieth century was out , the United Kingdom would be a country without empire and not in the front rank in size and power , and yet that this would not be synonymous with disaster , dishonour or extinction . |
| 12 | If we had nothing but nuclear forces , this would not be credible . |
| 13 | This would not be bad by any country 's standards . |
| 14 | But already there had been hints that this would not be her day . |
| 15 | And do not let him think he is to be parted from you forever Ellen for this would not be the truth . |
| 16 | If species were merely arbitrary groupings adopted to make naming possible , this would not be so . |
| 17 | If the degree of rotation was very small , so that for each dot the nearest neighbour is its own image , this would not be surprising : all that need be done is to draw imaginary lines between all pairs of nearest neighbours , and those lines will circle the centre of rotation . |
| 18 | The NCC points out that this would not be enough to protect many waters , and nitrogen removal equipment would have to be operated to achieve a lower level . |
| 19 | This would not be unlawful under the 1976 Act . |
| 20 | But this would not be the cheapest option . |
| 21 | If you only wanted the data of course , and not the accessing software , this would not be a problem , but this may not meet your needs . |
| 22 | This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear . |
| 23 | One idiot tried to shoot past us , but a combination of Paddy 's bulk and John 's succinct turn of phrase persuaded him that this would not be a good idea . |
| 24 | This would not be the case if astrology worked . |
| 25 | It is also uncertain whether already overworked physicians would welcome this development ; the evidence from a survey of the views of doctors and nurses working in accident and emergency departments suggests that this would not be the case ( Ghodse 1979 ) . |
| 26 | This would not be too great a bother if morels could be collected in the wild for a reasonable length of time each year , but the fruiting bodies of the morel make only a brief appearance , sometime between March and May . |
| 27 | If unemployment has its own effects on health , however , this would not be enough . |
| 28 | This would not be the case if a gas cell were used , as the doppler broadening would cause the peaks to merge together . |
| 29 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 30 | On the other hand , there is no evidence yet of transfer to public transport ; in a small town like Buxtehude this would not be expected anyway , but in the larger city schemes it seems likely that the failure to induce any significant modal switching will be one of the bigger disappointments of the experimental programme . |