Example sentences of "would be [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye would be awake again soon . |
| 2 | The Commission does not believe that it would be fruitful simply to gauge individual local authorities ' spending levels against aggregate spending levels ( 1983 , p. 17 ) : |
| 3 | I ca n't believe Dennis would be mischievous enough to wind anybody up on p on a subject that he 's so disinterested in . |
| 4 | His previous attempt on the world record was abandoned last year in Glasgow after health officials questioned whether the heat source would be powerful enough to heat the curry all the way through . |
| 5 | As countervalue weapons , aimed at large-scale societal destruction , their use would be illegal even in retaliation . |
| 6 | " If you can call a truce , I thought I would be magnanimous too . " |
| 7 | The Committee was equivocal on this , but recommended a formulation which would be broad enough to encompass these wider factors — ‘ the balance of the woman 's mind was disturbed by reason of the effect of giving birth or circumstances consequent upon that birth ’ . |
| 8 | It would be peaceful there . |
| 9 | Knowing our past does not automatically yield solutions to the problems of the present : but without a knowledge of the past it would be impossible even to contemplate addressing these problems . |
| 10 | It would be impossible here to go into all the things I learned in therapy . |
| 11 | A competition which requires every entry to be judged on its creative content , for example , would be impossible here . |
| 12 | It would be impossible administratively to place a higher tax on a given item for those with higher incomes although one could impose indirect taxes mainly on the goods and services consumed by higher-income groups , and perhaps at higher rates . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be marvellous just to have a look . ’ |
| 14 | Coping with life 6,000 miles from home and family in Vancouver would be daunting enough for any girl of Nadia 's age . |
| 15 | It would be necessary only to produce evidence of the drawing of straws and some sort of conspiracy to send Oliver Twist to ask for more . |
| 16 | This would be applicable mainly to trustees , agents and advisers . |
| 17 | Such a social psychology would be intrinsically applied , in that its theories and key concepts would be applicable only to particular , historical contexts . |
| 18 | One thing she knew for sure : Alain would be married long before she was . |
| 19 | If he would be married now and have children . |
| 20 | Because someone told Tony 's mum that Tony would be married twice and the second marriage would be very happy . |
| 21 | The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ . |
| 22 | The State Department on the whole supported the conclusion of an early treaty and was sympathetic to the British view that the indefinite prolongation of the occupation would be counter-productive politically and would encounter growing resentment from the Japanese people . |
| 23 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 24 | These effects would be real enough , but it would be naive to suppose that cheap loans and the raising of aggregate demand would render all socially desirable investment projects in the sphere of commodity production sufficiently profitable to make capitalist enterprises come clamouring for public funds . |
| 25 | It was explained to me that over the years all the planes on the green sward had landed by mistake , assuming that it would be solid enough to allow a take-off . |
| 26 | I knew the last 10 minutes would be nervous both for the fans and the supporters , as had happened against Oldham the previous week . |
| 27 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 28 | Yes it would be equivalent actually Mr Steel to the , well yes . |
| 29 | It would be normal well it must be what I 've said . |
| 30 | This was my holiday , and my brother would be here tomorrow , and all would be normal once more . |