Example sentences of "would [adv] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , but I 'd rather be left alone down here . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd rather be left alone . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Now if you do n't mind I 'd rather be left alone to finish drying my hair . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd scarcely be considered presentable . ’ |
| 5 | Here it could be wedged among the reeds , and would eventually be picked clean . |
| 6 | The Sun , on the eve of the Gulf War , had quoted Jason as saying that he would rather be buried alive that fight for his country . |
| 7 | A two-thirds majority , as provided for in the constitution , would only be held necessary for constitutional changes and legislation affecting human and civil rights . |
| 8 | If such an allotment would be prohibited by foreign law , or would only be permitted subject to compliance with onerous filing or other obligations , the scheme can be modified in relation to the overseas shareholders in question by providing for the consideration securities to be allotted to an independent trustee who will then sell the securities and account to the shareholders with the net proceeds . |
| 9 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 10 | The " real property " and " the real respectability " of the new centres of population would thus be given political weight , and the national electorate would be enlarged by " about half a million persons , and these all connected with the property of the country , having a valuable stake amongst us , and deeply interested in our institutions ' … |
| 11 | For example , operating decisions regarding the range of products to be made and sold would normally be made prior to the completion of the functional and master budgets , but these decisions when considered as a whole within the budgeting framework may be reconsidered and amendments made to the range . |
| 12 | Having said that , it is possible to plant some in groups , and it is true to say that some thrive in soil which would normally be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 13 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 14 | He almost invariably added that any expense would soon be made good by the increased value of the property . |
| 15 | A strong recovery in Britain would soon be cut short . |
| 16 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 17 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 18 | Low wages are conjoined , in this picture , with atrociously bad houses in which money is eaten away far more voraciously than would ever be thought conceivable in suburbia . |
| 19 | Although the proceedings are always enlivened by Diana 's presence , no true Lorenzo-goer would ever be caught dead owning up to being in awe of her . |
| 20 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 21 | The classical economists argued that , given a flexible rate of interest and a competitive market for loanable funds , saving and investment would always be made equal by changes in interest rates . |
| 22 | Vrba said that about 30 per cent of the workforce of the enterprises concerned would probably be made redundant after their sell-off . |
| 23 | The famous Lloyd 's unlimited liability probably meant that Adam would also be declared bankrupt . |
| 24 | It would also be made impossible for posts in the public service to be used as ‘ springboards ’ to highly profitable posts in banks and joint-stock companies . |
| 25 | ( But it would be a mistake to bring it back — we are bound to hang some unfortunate youth who would later be proved innocent by Ludovic Kennedy . ) |
| 26 | Throughout the first decade of television , the dominant influence was what would now be called stand-up comedy . |
| 27 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 28 | It was certainly possible to study what would now be called ecological relationships before the founding of scientific ecology . |
| 29 | His monistic philosophy promoted a sense of the unity of Nature among later generations of environmentalists , but it was several decades before serious work on what would now be called ecological topics began . |
| 30 | On a renewed application for leave to move for what would now be called judicial review , this court granted the application . |