Example sentences of "would [verb] be many " in BNC.
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| 1 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 2 | ‘ But for the intrusion of editorial conscience there would have been many more , ’ he wrote in the preface . |
| 3 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 4 | Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication . |
| 5 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |