Example sentences of "would [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but then her excuse would be but I mean he ca n't be on shift |
| 2 | I did n't know whether it would be but I thought , well you could go down and change it . |
| 3 | If I had any criticism of our organisation it would be that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel . |
| 4 | A simple answer to the question would be that We do , generally speaking , dream in colour , but that this aspect of the dream tends to be forgotten . |
| 5 | And my plea would be that we do everything we possibly can and that 's why I found the quotation from scripture in this section so apposite , that we do everything we possibly can in grace and love and truth to help people to enter into a commitment to the ministry of the whole people of God . |
| 6 | My own recommendation would be that we purchase multiple copies of a booklet currently available at under £1 , and distribute it to users on a one-per-room basis . |
| 7 | My reading of these figures would be that they reflect a surging interest and are not quite as unpopular as you would indicate . |
| 8 | Part of that would be that they identify that that 's , I 'm going there two years hence that 's the pathway and it 's too late to wait until next January a year from January and suddenly realise they need six G C S E's , a , b , c when they 've lost half their grades on the course work to date . |
| 9 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 10 | Had it been a professional job all that would matter from your point of view would be that you followed their instructions and moved at their pace with my help . |
| 11 | Your only defence would be that you did not publish the slander , which in this case would be very difficult , I feel . |
| 12 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 13 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 14 | The difference would be that it does not offer a critique by positioning itself outside ‘ the West ’ , but rather uses its own alterity and duplicity in order to effect its deconstruction . |
| 15 | The most respectable description of the bronze figure would be that it appeared to represent the Goddess of Fertility . |
| 16 | The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength . |
| 17 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 18 | The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct . |
| 19 | After supper Uncle Bill would put me , as he always did , in the big double bed in the room next the kitchen , and then he 'd leave the door open , and I 'd lie and listen to him and Bernard yarning , wondering how soon it would be before they got into bed , one on either side of me . |
| 20 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 21 | He wondered how long it would be before they gave up going to the clearing altogether . |
| 22 | He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man . |
| 23 | Jimmy watched him , wondering how long it would be before he met up with this guy again on the street . |
| 24 | I wondered how long it would be before I saw England again . |
| 25 | I wondered how long it would be before I stopped loving him . |
| 26 | She had on her housecoat , which offered a fair display of bosom , and Wycliffe wondered how long it would be before she found a successor for the undertaker . |
| 27 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 28 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 29 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 30 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |