Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] the [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 | Innocuous would be nearer the mark . |
| 4 | To say he was both administrative and executive officer to the family — and legal adviser — would be nearer the mark . |
| 5 | It would be nearer the mark to say we fall in love with the personality . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ To the background would be nearer the truth . ’ |
| 8 | But , as will be seen later , the reverse would be nearer the truth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Ma advi … advis … he stumbled over the unfamiliar word , ‘ Ma advisor said he would be here the day . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A Hollywood blue movie would be just the kind of bonus to keep his agents sweet . |
| 14 | A surprise attack at midnight would be just the sort of thing he might try . |
| 15 | A BEECH hedge , we thought , would be just the job . |
| 16 | a repeat performance would be just the job … |
| 17 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 18 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 19 | Baked beans would be just the thing for it . " |
| 20 | Knotted vines that hung down doing nothing — he decided would be just the thing |
| 21 | You 'll notice that instead of complaints signed in what would be technically the paragraph where they talk about service requests , because many of the requests we get from members of the public to provide a service are not necessarily complaints , but they do need our help . |
| 22 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 23 | The transfer of ILEA responsibilities to the council meant that future decisions around integration and children would be mainly the brief of the new Education Committee . |
| 24 | A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers . |
| 25 | Because there are so many locations within the Castle , it simply is n't practical to detail every last carpet and piece of furniture — if we did this book would be twice the size ( and twice the price ! ) . |
| 26 | The delay would be twice the duration of the original journey time . |
| 27 | I thought in your case it would be more the natural . |
| 28 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 29 | Part French and part halting English , it said that they planned to visit London and then Scotland , and though it would be almost the grouse shooting season there , they would come for August 12th to Yorkshire , taking up Robert 's invitation . |
| 30 | All thought it unsafe or ugly or both , and asked what use it would be once the exhibition was over . |