Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it does because Phil 'll tell Sal and then she 'd know it 'd be completely the end of everything cos Sal would n't put up with that sort of thing . |
| 2 | One week , people , cos we 'd be away the week before . |
| 3 | So if you if you took that up and down there 'd be quite a lot . |
| 4 | That 'd be quite an achievement really . |
| 5 | People would come and stay the night and then they 'd be there a month , you know how it is : ‘ Can I stay a night ? ’ 'Sure , sure . ’ |
| 6 | Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much . |
| 7 | You 'd be there an hour love , it 's a long time to sit by yourself . |
| 8 | There would be simply a walkout and the men would stay out until management either conceded to listen to one of their representatives and resolved the matter then and there . |
| 9 | He argued in his essay On Liberty that State schools , with a State control over the curriculum , would be simply a means of producing a docile and bien pensant population , moulded in accordance with the wishes of the government of the day . |
| 10 | Think of the present problem with Bosnia there is n't a single er advanced industrial country that wishes to get engaged in ground warfare in Yugoslavia because there would be simply no point in it and any casualty er would be seen as a waste , as a throwing away of resources and you 'd have many casualties it 's argued . |
| 11 | Innocuous would be nearer the mark . |
| 12 | To say he was both administrative and executive officer to the family — and legal adviser — would be nearer the mark . |
| 13 | It would be nearer the mark to say we fall in love with the personality . |
| 14 | However , he then says that he has continued the work of John XXIII with such fidelity that , ‘ if anything , the criticism that I lack initiatives of my own would be nearer the mark ’ ( Notizario , 13 , pp. 15–16 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ To the background would be nearer the truth . ’ |
| 16 | But , as will be seen later , the reverse would be nearer the truth . |
| 17 | A study by the Edinburgh-based economic consultancy , Pieda , has shown that if the duty rate per degree of alcohol was raised on wine and lowered on whisky ( and other spirits ) , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks that would maintain the total tax take would be nearer the wine rate than the spirits rate as wine ( and beer ) account for 76 per cent of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 18 | Because the US was sacrificing blood and treasure to assure peace and stability in the Far East , the maintenance of which after the war would be largely a US responsibility , it would not have been unreasonable ‘ to insist that the French give adequate assurances as to the implementing of policies in Indo-China which we consider essential to assure peace and stability in the Far East ’ . |
| 19 | Every man owed allegiance to a Lord — the tenants who worked the field would hold his land from the owner , who would be either a Baron ; a Bishop , or the Abbott of a monastery , to whom the tenant had to render service . |
| 20 | You can always go straight through it , it would be right every time ? |
| 21 | And if it were possible for you to decide that one of these options , one to eight , were to suit your regular and usual purposes at these meetings for general discussion then that obviously would be both a saving in erm time and labour and is one of the reasons why one installs computerized equipment so that you do n't er then have to do it all manually as well . |
| 22 | ‘ Ma advi … advis … he stumbled over the unfamiliar word , ‘ Ma advisor said he would be here the day . ’ |
| 23 | Thus in a five-member constituency in which 120,000 ballots are cast , the formula would be Hence the quota ( the number of ballots required to elect one member ) would be 20,001 . |
| 24 | Sheddon , however , refused this offer on the grounds that the travelling time to the new place of employment would be over an hour each way , compared with the 25-minute journey to the old site and because the travelling allowance only partly met his increased travel costs . |
| 25 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 26 | This set would be just a taste of what was to come in the wedding dower , a tantalising taste of the jewels that would eventually be showered on the bride . |
| 27 | A mild , wet spring would be just the ticket for Stowmarket-based lawnmower maker Atco Qualcast , whose management team has just bought the firm from cement group Blue Circle Industries . |
| 28 | A Hollywood blue movie would be just the kind of bonus to keep his agents sweet . |
| 29 | A surprise attack at midnight would be just the sort of thing he might try . |
| 30 | A BEECH hedge , we thought , would be just the job . |