Example sentences of "[adv] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to avoid selective cover only would be for the government to insist on a compulsory levy on all commercial insurance policies , and this has been suggested by the Association of Insurers and Risk Manager in Industry and Commerce ( AIRMIC ) which represents about 300 UK insurance buyers . |
| 2 | A warm front had passed the previous day , leaving the usual warm sector haze , the following cold front was still hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic so would be of no interest to the mainland for a few days . |
| 3 | As in so many other matters , the judge should be given the discretion to tell the press that they may not publicise the name of a person , because to do so would be in contempt of court . |
| 4 | However the young couple were determined that whatever time they had left together would be as husband and wife . |
| 5 | The best she could hope for now was that they could form some sort of working relationship , even though every minute they spent together would be for her sweet agony . |
| 6 | That move alone would be worth around £2m . |
| 7 | That movement alone would be worth the price of this CD . |
| 8 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
| 9 | When , however , some women did wish to join the larger societies in the 1870s , the societies found their doctors unwilling to treat women unless they paid higher contributions than men , on the grounds that women were more often sick and would make heavier demands on their services , which thus would be of greater benefit to poorer women . |
| 10 | Perhaps a look elsewhere would be in order . |
| 11 | Should it be proved to the satisfaction of the House that the benefits that I have described will accrue , any decision to stay outside would be of immense disadvantage to us . |
| 12 | Downstairs would be in darkness , so any light going on would attract the attention of the night porter . |
| 13 | Because that was all she ever would be to a man like him . |
| 14 | I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp . |
| 15 | No , I 've had 2 other books published er previously by the same publishers , er one was in Berkshire , one was in Hampshire , very much along the same sort of lines , er I think the longest walk I did probably would be about sort of 7 or 8 miles with those , er just as , you know , er the walks in , in , in this particular book are no more than 7 or 8 miles . |
| 16 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 17 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 18 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 19 | If you 're attracting custom as a childminder , you really would be in business . |
| 20 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 21 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 22 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 23 | He could put the past behind him ; whatever was to happen now would be by his own endeavour , his own will . |
| 24 | No sound came from within , for the mares now would be in the fields , including the little foal which had been born the night of the burglary . |
| 25 | To cover herself now would be like doing a striptease in reverse , and would only emphasis her uncomfortable consciousness of her bare flesh . |
| 26 | to acknowledge how ‘ well run ’ the wilderness has been ( and presumably would be under the same regime in future ) and how adept their bailiffs and stalkers have been at pursuing ‘ a careful policy of highly selective culling , a scientific approach to hind and calf management . ’ |
| 27 | The grim knowledge that any attempt to dodge off unofficially would be like a minor desertion and would be followed by serious consequences , even prison , did n't weigh with me . |
| 28 | I need to look elsewhere , ’ and the referral processes that go on would be through the G P or , or through the school psychological services where longer term help might be necessary . |
| 29 | To go on would be like stepping blindfold into the dark , and she was n't ready . |
| 30 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |