Example sentences of "would be [prep] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spent her rare afternoons off visiting the sights of Paris , or lying in the Luxembourg Gardens alone , reading Dostoevsky and Sartre and Camus , and sending out contradictory messages to idle young men who wondered if it would be worth trying to pick her up . |
| 2 | Inspection of the scatterplot suggested that it would be worth trying to fit a line ; the task is to find one which will come as near as possible to the data points . |
| 3 | The most obvious way of doing this would be by seeking to invoke the protection afforded to freedom of conscience under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 4 | This looks like a case of a random example ; for the only problem it could create would be by failing to fall within a category of admissible wordings . |
| 5 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 6 | It would be like trying to stop a buffalo , because he was nothing but muscle , weight and bone . |
| 7 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 8 | It would be like trying to fill the Pacific Ocean with pebbles thrown into the waves . |
| 9 | To put Labour in charge would be like trying to douse a fire with kerosene . |
| 10 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 11 | She could n't imagine what it would be like having to get into bed with the elegant stranger who turned to speak to her now and then . |
| 12 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |