Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Three of them would obviously be Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | One of them would undoubtedly be Hunt 's physical condition . |
| 5 | She 'd have to show Martin that though they would always be friends , her first loyalty lay with her husband . |
| 6 | ‘ They would always be pick-ups . |
| 7 | They would never be friends , but by keeping a great distance , they might not become enemies . |
| 8 | They would never be Spandau Ballet . |
| 9 | They would indeed be things . |
| 10 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 11 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 12 | They would certainly be persons aggrieved . |
| 13 | With a lack of concern for place which was worthy of his father , he said he would rather be Minister of Health . |
| 14 | If Ben had stayed unconscious one minute longer , he would probably be brain damaged ; up to five minutes and he would n't have lived . |
| 15 | He would still be state president , but he would lose his real power base . |
| 16 | I venture to guess he would still be director . |
| 17 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 18 | It would also be discrimination contrary to the Act if an LEA adopted an admissions policy of dispersing ethnic minority children . |
| 19 | This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable |
| 20 | Student : ‘ I thought it would just be kid 's stuff … |
| 21 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 22 | I would think it would just be trimmings . |
| 23 | No , it would just be comments . |
| 24 | It would probably be Gascoigne 's last appearence as a Spurs player before his proposed £5.5 million transfer to Lazio , subject to a medical on his damaged knee ligaments . |
| 25 | So , it would simply be ethanol for vodka , whisky , bacardi |
| 26 | Just as the higher law of life stops an apple held in my hand from obeying the law of gravity to which it would otherwise be subject , so the law ( as he daringly calls it ) of the Spirit overcomes the sin death principle to which the Christian would otherwise be subject . |
| 27 | If I had to choose one set it would either be Rogé or this EMI issue . |
| 28 | Now he sat by the fire with his whisky , a drink he did not care for , making conversation with Tony and hoping that it would soon be time for bed . |
| 29 | It would soon be time to commence hay-making in the Handley Farm pastures . |
| 30 | She could tell by the angle of the light that it would soon be sunset , and the prospect of being here in the dark appalled her . |