Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you what I 'd rather be Intercity than Central Services in terms of the market we 've got . |
| 2 | But I would n't be chairman of the bank if I 'd made very many mistakes . |
| 3 | ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it . |
| 4 | So you 'd you 'd that could be Christmas day or new year 's day which would n't be part of any month . |
| 5 | Acts which would otherwise be trespass are not so when justification is provided by law . |
| 6 | When they were , by one LEA , advised about how to produce a management plan , they were told that there was probably " much information already in the school which would either be part of the plan or would help in the process of producing specific documents within it . " |
| 7 | When she read those magazines , did she think she 'd ever be part of that world ? |
| 8 | Possibly it was thought that for this reason , amongst others , she would not be suspect by our controls . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne — she would not be McAllister again until she reached Vetch Street — bit her lip . |
| 10 | That would be one less thing for him to worry about with regards to his mother , for she would still be mistress of the house , at least until the war was over , which might go on for a year , perhaps two . |
| 11 | Two or three of them who were on the main board solicited support from other board members ; they worked even harder to obtain commitment from the heads of the businesses , who would soon be board members . |
| 12 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 13 | ‘ I have in mind the fact that it was not seriously disputed , at any stage during the election , that eight out of 10 families would gain as a result of Labour 's tax and spending proposals ; and yet a number of people who would undoubtedly be beneficiaries of what we were proposing appear not to have recognised that . ’ |
| 14 | Along with scores of authors of whom he had never heard he found forgotten friends : Hugh Walpole , John Galsworthy , and the redoubtable Mazo de la Roche , captivator of millions who would now be devotees of TV soap … |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd both be strangers , then , if we met outside ? |
| 16 | Of course we are ; if we were n't rude Americans we 'd still be colonists , so tough shit ! |
| 17 | I mean to say , I told him we would n't be enemies once it was all over . |
| 18 | ‘ But we would n't be nuisances ! ’ exclaimed Linda indignantly . |
| 19 | The huts would look like they used to and inside there 'd even be staff dressed in period uniform . |
| 20 | There 'd still be time to catch the last collection . |
| 21 | The visitor would understandably back off quickly and there would either be pandemonium or an utter , stunned silence . |
| 22 | The actual pitch should be written in , as shown , when there would otherwise be ambiguity ( as there would be in this case , as to which F is required , high or low ) . |
| 23 | In addition to the cake there would probably be trifle , gloriously awash with sherry and cream and as heavily decorated as a Russian general . |
| 24 | Probably there would n't be words sufficient to express the outrage . |
| 25 | Let's face it , there would n't be room for any tourists , so why advertise ? |
| 26 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 27 | There would n't be room for the caravan to start with . |
| 28 | There would n't be photos of him if he had . |
| 29 | Well , if you poked around the lot every hour , there would n't be time to cover the rest of the beat properly . |
| 30 | The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps . |