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 | 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 . |
| 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 | If you 're attracting custom as a childminder , you really would be in business . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | He could put the past behind him ; whatever was to happen now would be by his own endeavour , his own will . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To cover herself now would be like doing a striptease in reverse , and would only emphasis her uncomfortable consciousness of her bare flesh . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A transaction with a foreigner who is resident here would be outside the embrace of the legislation if he happened to be abroad , or chose to be abroad , at the time the transaction was effected . |
| 29 | My argument here with Dennett is that if he intends interpretations ( a ) or ( b ) ( a textual quotation here would be beside the point , since these distinctions are not made in his paper in that form ) , then those are inferior explications of consciousness to a process one in terms of level : ( b ) because it lacks the ‘ unity ’ requirement , and ( a ) because , although it could meet all the necessary conditions set out earlier , it seems in some way arbitrary , just as did Minsky 's supreme organizing module . |
| 30 | She was a pretty little thing , but I fear the libido of the young men she encountered in here would be at a low ebb . |