Example sentences of "would be [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I care , there 'd be nobody to sew my buttons on if you were dead . ’ |
| 2 | it 'd be something to remember her by . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 'd be something to do . ’ |
| 4 | You said a moment ago that there 'd be someone to organize transport . |
| 5 | The obvious difficulty would be what to do about imports . |
| 6 | Once I got the hang of it , I had been telling myself smugly , there would be nothing to stop us having a marvelous time for a glorious night and a day … |
| 7 | But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material . |
| 8 | Tourists passed through here in their thousands , and the face of a stranger would be nothing to remark upon in the approaching season . |
| 9 | If none of the light bounced off the electron into the microscope there would be nothing to see . |
| 10 | Perhaps there would be nothing to see , and their manifestation would simply be advertised by an intense cold in the room or a sparkling plasma . |
| 11 | It was argued that a breach of natural justice at the original hearing conducted by racing stewards could not be cured by an appeal to a committee of the Australian Jockey Club since there would be nothing to appeal against , the first decision being a nullity . |
| 12 | When the star had exhausted its nuclear fuel , there would be nothing to maintain the outward pressure , and the star would begin to collapse because of its own gravity . |
| 13 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 14 | For Mrs Whitehouse it seemed that the Church was under a concerted attack and that , if it was not vigorously defended , then there would be nothing to prevent ‘ the tide of permissiveness ’ or the advance of the ‘ new morality ’ . |
| 15 | If there were no House of Lords , there would be nothing to prevent a majority in the Commons from postponing an election by extending Parliament beyond the limit of five years . |
| 16 | Equally , there would be nothing to prevent private social work companies setting up in opposition to local authority and voluntary agency workers ; private training companies are already emerging . |
| 17 | . Having said that there was always another clause which said that er there would be nothing to prevent our members from bargaining at domestic level . |
| 18 | However , there would be nothing to prevent an employer from requiring disabled applicants to submit to a more extensive medical examination than others . |
| 19 | Except that if they moved away , there would be nothing to hinder the army couched over the river from crossing and flinging their full weight against Scone before his own men from the south could arrive . |
| 20 | There would be nobody to meet her in London because she had not bothered to let Glyn know she was coming back . |
| 21 | They had a wooden hut built up there especially to have their lunch in , and there would be plenty to drink , including a hogshead of beer . |
| 22 | It was also a foretaste of the explosive energy which , within a life-span , would be ours to control or abuse . |
| 23 | Secondly , the film suggests that Walter is thrown into a harrowing situation because his parents are dead , compounding the fears of many people that if they had a mentally handicapped child , there would be no-one to look after him or her if they died . |
| 24 | To disband every army everywhere ; now that would be something to celebrate ! |
| 25 | It would be something to remember , would n't it ? |
| 26 | This interlude with Penry Vaughan on Gullholm would be something to remember with gratitude as a sort of enchanted no man 's land in between . |
| 27 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |
| 28 | That would be something to watch , I decided . |
| 29 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 30 | A polite little tinkle , now that would be something to cause concern ! |