Example sentences of "would be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there 'd be d issue , so it 's tax free . |
| 2 | We 'd be country weekenders . ’ |
| 3 | It 'd be museum quality . |
| 4 | Pass any candy store in the city and there 'd be marzipan skulls and sugar fish and little white chocolate bones for 5 cents each . |
| 5 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 6 | I told you it 'd be chicken chasseur ! |
| 7 | ‘ If word of this had got back to Connelly there 'd be gang war , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 8 | There 'd be Sam Smith , and Allen another hay-dealer , and I 'd walk with this officer and he say : |
| 9 | ‘ If this was a hotel , there 'd be Sunday papers , ’ said Norman . |
| 10 | ‘ If she were a President , she 'd be Baberahm Lincoln ’ is one of the quips about Claudia Schiffer in Wayne 's World . |
| 11 | there 'd be post post will come in the afternoon |
| 12 | If she was President , she 'd be Baberaham Lincoln ’ ) , and Carvey 's Garth Alcar , the ultra-introverted , computer-superliterate second banana , impaled the national consciousness in a way unseen since SNL 's Belushi/Aykroyd/Murray glory days . |
| 13 | We 'd be Bryan Adams . |
| 14 | By the time he got back there 'd be search parties out looking for him . |
| 15 | ‘ You thought you 'd be Sherlock Holmes ? ’ |
| 16 | He 's not been paying , but I suppose , with a business like that it 'd be V A T would n't it ? |
| 17 | If I was a captain on A Question Of Sport , I 'd be Fatima Whitbread … such curious muscle development . ’ |
| 18 | If they thought the same way as Joe Punter , they 'd be Joe Punter , and somebody else would be having all the fun . ’ |
| 19 | In the afternoon there 'd be costume parties . |
| 20 | Among the immediate beneficiaries of a green light on young cattle would be pedigree breeders — particularly those from the South-west offering Galloways . |
| 21 | There would be Skills UK — a locally structured training commission — a Fair Wages Commission , a Health Technology Commission , a Health Quality Commission , an Education Standards Council , an Independent Sentencing Council , a Children 's Commissioner , an Environmental Protection Executive , and a Social Insurance Fund administered by … ‘ an independent commission ’ . |
| 22 | The assessments would be expensive but if the Institute qualification were ‘ NVQ 'd ’ there would be Government funding for part or all . |
| 23 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 24 | More curious examples would be Arthur Ransome 's illustrations to his own books . |
| 25 | Hereford drew too … and in rugby Gloucester claimed the scalp of would be champions Bath . |
| 26 | The next station would be Lydham Heath . |
| 27 | Considering this inexperience , plus Verity Lambert 's dearth of knowledge of TV technology and internal BBC procedures , Donald Wilson bestowed upon her a guardian in the guise of Mervyn Pinfield , who would be Doctor Who 's technical adviser under a job title of Associate Producer . |
| 28 | Without the newcomers many more villages would be ghost villages and the social demoralization would be even more acute . |
| 29 | If Somerset should opt once more for a batsman , my instinct tells me the favourite would be Richie Richardson . |
| 30 | If the police were to do that , there would be public outrage . ’ |