Example sentences of "would [adv] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I 'm saying is that although there will be an overspend , it should n't be massive cos the overspend would effectively be the hump right at the beginning of the year . |
| 2 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 3 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |
| 4 | In Five go to Mystery Moor , George ( ‘ Georgina by rights ’ says the explanatory blurb ) has the bitter experience of jealousy when the group is joined by ‘ another girl … who would rather be a boy , and tries to act like one ! ’ — Henry ( Henrietta ‘ by rights ’ ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it would rather be a matter of relinquishment of the claim . |
| 6 | If a man would rather be the machine , I can not argue with him . |
| 7 | I would rather be the creator of my own success . |
| 8 | There would presumably be a driveway of sorts leading from the back of the house to the road and my easiest way home . |
| 9 | The second is that if , following the Francovich case , there was held to be a right to damages in such circumstances , the effect of requiring an undertaking from the council would be to impose liability in damages on the council instead of on the United Kingdom which , as I understand the position , would properly be the party so liable . |
| 10 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 11 | If I took your silver , I would only be a thief . |
| 12 | Anything else would only be a repetition . |
| 13 | But this would only be a story , and would not ring true . |
| 14 | There would only be a couple of weeks left when he returned before the opening at the Fortune Theatre on 17 September . |
| 15 | The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital . |
| 16 | And with a team of assassins awaiting Jamel Mobuto 's arrival in America , it would only be a question of days before Tito Ngune was inaugurated as the new President of Zimbala . |
| 17 | It would only be a matter of ti me before the pubs , the little grocer and the dry-cleaner 's were replaced by some establishment selling something on which an enormous mark-up could be obtained . |
| 18 | It would only be a matter of time , analysts warned , before a conservative backlash would begin with the usual repressive measures against bourgeois liberalism . |
| 19 | It would only be a matter of time before the strong-willed de Gaulle would seek to reshape the EEC according to his own conceptions . |
| 20 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 21 | It would only be a matter of time before it was discovered but it was the best she could do in such a short time . |
| 22 | And it would only be a matter of time before they came to investigate . |
| 23 | If a complete unified theory was discovered , it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified in the same way and taught in schools , at least in outline . |
| 24 | . If it was on a P D P Eleven then the addressing would only be a matter of si sixteen bit as well . |
| 25 | If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis . |
| 26 | Sir John knew it would only be a matter of time before his masters at the Guildhall or , worse still , the Regent at the Savoy Palace , asked for an account of his stewardship . |
| 27 | Site fear : Residents ' fears over coke gas detected under the pitch of the rundown Holly Park stadium in Garston , have been calmed by city council officials , who say problems with contaminants would only be a risk if the ground was disturbed . |
| 28 | It 's no use my telling you what it is — she might not agree , and then it would only be a waste of time . ’ |
| 29 | I should have tried to comfort her , saying it would only be a month or two before spring came . |
| 30 | ‘ That would only be a distraction now , ’ said Pooley . |