Example sentences of "would [adv] [be] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But only down to the tiles so mine 'd only be half way .
2 If this was all there was to Soccer Rivals it 'd just be another mediocre management game , but the board-game aspect is a lot of fun , especially with three human players .
3 You 'd just be another one .
4 In the quiet of the new suburbs , regrets for the past : " There 'd always be some life about .
5 hate but there 'd still be this kind of feeling that , you know , why are they here , what is the purpose ?
6 After the last couple of days spent in her company , he 'd probably be more than delighted to welcome Suzie and her two glamorous friends .
7 The Signature model breaks with tradition by having a moderately stupendous neck featuring both flaming and birdseye figuring ( Leo Fender never approved of figured necks , since there 'd never be enough to go round and he disliked any form of elitism ) while the JD offers a dead plain , workmanlike affair .
8 But I knew that nothing would ever discourage him ; he 'd never give up wanting to be a director , and he 'd never be any good .
9 You say I could make a veterinary nurse — that 's as maybe , but I 'm sure I 'd never be any good as a vet . ’
10 No man as prudent as William Titford would have paid out good money for a family grave unless he had some firm evidence that there would eventually be some bodies to put in it .
11 For student committees a quorum would rarely be less than one-third nor more than two-thirds of the members entitled to attend .
12 Ask yourself which politician you would rather be this fortnight , Chris Patten or Nigel Lawson , and the answer is easy : John Smith .
13 It would only be another twenty-four hours until he got back from Soldeu .
14 She anticipated that fir from being deluged with relatively less serious complaints , it would only be those women ‘ most traumatised by the experience ’ of rape who would report it .
15 They 're purely on on the numbers , the same er stand , the different sizes would still be available , there would merely be fewer of them in total stocks .
16 That would merely be another way of manufacturing extra government — no doubt to employ Labour 's trade union supporters , at great expense to the taxpayers .
17 Oh just just well it would just been all the ones from around that district kind of way .
18 I was very worried when I found it was quads , because I assumed that there would just be more complications and we 'd end up with nothing again .
19 If she went , much as her emotions screamed at her to do so , she knew deep in her heart that eventually it would just be more of the same , more of Cameron 's evasion , his neglect , his unexplained absences .
20 ‘ But it would just be another sad day in my life .
21 But such a shared interest would scarcely be enough to form such a strong friendship .
22 Indeed , there would not be much sense in such an arrangement .
23 The letter did not mention that , having made the choice , there would not be much chance of going back .
24 As Ellen Smyth said , " women did for 14s the same work as men for 32s " .74 ( She was actually quoting the lowest rates : Amelia McLean pointed out that " stab girls " made between 15s and 25s , while piece workers got 14s to 16s ; " if all the girls in the different occupations in Edinburgh had such a wage , there would not be much to grumble about " . )
25 There may be an element of revolutionary wishful thinking here : if all the system had to worry about was the minority of people who seriously call for the abolition of prisons or the prospect of the imminent overthrow of capitalism there would not be much of a crisis .
26 Andrew Watkinson , a member of the Advisory Committee on Release to the Environment , said that as long as Nickerson made careful checks for tubers and burnt off any remaining material , there would not be much likelihood of this occurring .
27 Harold would acknowledge her politely and indicate that it would not be many hours before he was going up .
28 If no one could learn anything from my saying , ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ , there would not be that use of ‘ Here ’ .
29 Had Mr Howe and all the Lakeside opposition attended the three public meetings we were all invited and urged strongly to attend , perhaps there would not be all this dithering now .
30 Had Mr Howe and all the Lakeside opposition attended the three public meetings we were all invited and urged strongly to attend , perhaps there would not be all this dithering now .
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