Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 2 | Er well I 'm sixty-five you see , so I mean I would be in my forties would n't I you see . |
| 3 | Well like I said I think probably they 're really kicking themselves I mean I would be in their situation . |
| 4 | I mean it 's not er it 's not something that I would normally do , I mean I would be quite happy to chat to somebody probably for too long . |
| 5 | Nobody really says that any more they say I would be , they do n't bother saying I should |
| 6 | National pay settlements and negotiating arrangements hinder that process which would be improved , they argue , by ‘ flexibility ’ in wage-rates and local pay bargaining . |
| 7 | ‘ I suggest you would be sensible to do so . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 9 | I would hazard a guess and say she would be , at the time , about six years older than I , making her about 17 years old . |
| 10 | I expect we would be able to sell the Benson & Hedges again to a new sponsor . ’ |
| 11 | But clergywomen say there would be little value in that . |
| 12 | The model tells us that 0.238 of poor respondents say they would be prepared to break the law ( the baseline ) . |
| 13 | This finding is replicated in figure 13.4 ; overall , 0.215 more young people than old people say they would be prepared to break the law . |
| 14 | Secondly , such models can be used to predict the proportions who say they would be prepared to break the law . |
| 15 | And half say they would be more likely to buy from a shop that provided this service . |
| 16 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 17 | Why ca n't we could , as I suggest it would be slightly vague and , and the fact that the , the report shows the collection date , we could say the date it 's going to be collected cos you 'd get them to go through all |
| 18 | Tulu admitted : ‘ I knew what sort of race it would be . |
| 19 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
| 20 | They say it would be cheaper because it would avoid the difficult tunnelling terrain of waterlogged sand and gravel which has prevented the building of Tube lines to much of south London . |
| 21 | Critics of this idea say it would be ludicrously expensive . |
| 22 | Some common elements , like drag and drop and point and click , have already found their way into most GUIs , and those involved in Galileo say it would be possible to get things up and running within a matter of weeks once agreement has been reached . |
| 23 | The detailed plans were unveiled after a two year study , but local people say they 've been misled , and councillors say it would be an environmental disaster . |
| 24 | Animal Welfare groups say it would be madness to remove laws which have protected Britain for so long from Rabies , a disease that causes fever and paralysis , leading to a slow , painful death . |
| 25 | But prison officers say it would be impossible to enforce . |
| 26 | But staff say it would be hypocritical to welcome her to a place where foxes injured by hounds are nursed back to health . |
| 27 | CRITICS of the proposal for a supermarket at Blands Corner , Darlington , say it would be an eyesore . |
| 28 | ‘ If it was n't so warm it would be more like November or December ’ |
| 29 | Well you can drop the calculator if you want it would be better if you pick 'em up and stick the numbers in . |
| 30 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |