Example sentences of "he would be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he agreed , the threat of proceedings against him would be unnecessary . |
| 2 | The premium rate suggested by him would be equivalent to an amount in excess of £1 billion ( $1.95 billion ) for a syndicate with a capacity of £41m ; this in addition to the losses already paid and reserved . |
| 3 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 4 | She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden . |
| 5 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 6 | Rebirth for him would be fatal , in the word of a later poem ‘ like Death , our death ’ . |
| 7 | And Noades , who ordered a 10 per cent wage cut for Palace office staff this month , never dreamed he would be obliged to pay up . |
| 8 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 9 | He would be obliged to offer me some aid , knowing I had information to help him in his pursuit of the monster . |
| 10 | It may be conceded that if he did not occupy it under his contract with the bank rent free he would be obliged to hire a house elsewhere , pay rent for it , and pro tanto diminish his income [ author 's emphasis ] . |
| 11 | He would be asleep soon . |
| 12 | But he would be shocked and saddened by how utterly selfish most of us so-called Christians are at Christmas when there is so much hunger and grief in the world . |
| 13 | No-one in London knew for sure yesterday , though on Saturday evening Coker said he would be available , jet-lag permitting . |
| 14 | ‘ If Captain Hook were alive and well — he would be available for vengeance . ’ |
| 15 | Durham , by that reckoning , got it all wrong when they signed a batsman as their overseas player in the knowledge that he would be available for only 3½ months of the five-month season . |
| 16 | True , he had told James Pegg he would be available to discuss a problem with him after bathing , but now that must wait until he had seen Rose . |
| 17 | Although Hateley is now ruled out of the crunch game in Marseille on April 7 and the final mini-league match against CSKA Moscow two weeks later , he would be available for the final in Munich 's Olympic Stadium . |
| 18 | The Lord Chancellor ( Viscount Dilhorne ) said that , as he was not himself a candidate for the leadership , if anyone wished to have any private talk he would be available . |
| 19 | If the time was deemed to be right , if the prospective bride had accepted and the parents had chosen a time , he would be married , that was sure . |
| 20 | If he would be married now and have children . |
| 21 | But for such proposed order the appellant would clearly be unable to hand over the documents : he would be subject to an implied undertaking , analogous to that arising on discovery in civil proceedings , not to use the disclosed documents otherwise than for the purposes for which discovery was given , here the pursuance of the criminal appeal which is now , of course , successfully concluded . |
| 22 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 23 | Of course as soon as the fight was over everyone said they knew he would be victorious . |
| 24 | She hoped he would be gang-raped in the showers every night . |
| 25 | However , he would be right most of the time even if the central dogma is wrong , and protein sequences could be translated into DNA sequences , because most ‘ acquired characters ’ would not involve the synthesis of new kinds of proteins . |
| 26 | He would be accountable to the Minister of the Interior and would head a regional council which would include , as well as local officials , " not less than 10 people of learning , experience , and competence from the public " . |
| 27 | Talb 's lawyer , Mr Sven Eric Sjogren , said he would be appealing against the convictions . |
| 28 | He would be sure to know . |
| 29 | Perhaps he should marry Joanna , then he would be certain that whatever lust he felt would be leeched harmless by her sex . |
| 30 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |