Example sentences of "would be [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another romantic winner would be Numerate 's jockey , Tania Davis , the only lady riding in the National . |
| 2 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 3 | All that would be necessary is that England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland should be treated as distinct electoral entities . |
| 4 | a wound up , I mean if there was a league team like Kettering , Kettering like the fourth division , that would be brilliant be nearer to go would n't it ? |
| 5 | It is best NOT to use people whose handicap is so severe that they would be awkward being involved in this procession . |
| 6 | That he has been able to combine both ministries would be surprising were it not for the fact that he has worked as an active Socialist besides having a good track record in cultural affairs . |
| 7 | Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 . |
| 8 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 9 | The idea that competition for audience share would be virtuous was thus an innovation . |
| 10 | Council staff provided an estimate of the gap between rates payable in Scotland in 1990/91 and the rates that would be payable were the same system in place as is in England ( The Uniform Business Rate ) . |
| 11 | Phil 's discovery of Laura 's need to believe she had decided whether or not a new idea would be successful was an essential prerequisite for anyone who wanted a good working relationship with her . |
| 12 | For , according to Moore , to say that an action would be right is to say that the total results of doing it would be at least as good as would be those of doing any alternative . |
| 13 | The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) . |
| 14 | Specific areas of controversy where an SRO for pension funds would be useful are in disputes over investment strategies of funds , in fund surpluses , and in pension fund ‘ holidays ’ . |
| 15 | I would be grateful were you to bring this Mass to the attention of the people through your parish bulletins . |
| 16 | States have shown a capacity for self-destruction in the past and wars have come with a regularity which would be monotonous were it not so horrifying ; history belies the claims of statesmen to be in charge of events . |
| 17 | To human beings the existence of exploitative relations of production would be agonizing were they perceived simply as exploitative . |
| 18 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |
| 19 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 20 | Despite the relief provided by a wide , bashful grin , Singleton 's arrogance would be unbearable were it not fuelled by righteous indignation and an urgent need to communicate . |
| 21 | But that local needs heading is one heading , the other heading which I think would be unavoidable is erm on migration . |
| 22 | The incident would be funny were it not that a similar stunt had been pulled in Kismayu , southern Somalia 's largest port , at the end of March . |
| 23 | All this would be fine were it not for the fact that Pearce has chosen to support the main course of his assault with a little verbal side-dish , to wit : an attack on Punch . |
| 24 | For more than a week , a group of grey-suited former communists has played with the nation 's future with an irresponsibility and spite that would be risible were it not so dangerous . |
| 25 | Overcoming these rivalries , which would be pretty were they not so debilitating , has proved harder than talking about them . |
| 26 | As far as women who would be Christian are concerned , how may they see in the Godhead an image of themselves ? |
| 27 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 28 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 29 | The reason why acquittal would be wrong is explained by my noble and learned friend , post , pp. 1110H — 1111A : |
| 30 | Whether such a policy would be desirable is debatable , but certainly no society has been willing to divert the necessary resources to the police in order to come anywhere near such a policy . |