Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] would [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |
| 2 | The Money Study Group ( MSG ) aims to bring together academic and professional economists , many of whom would otherwise be working in isolation . |
| 3 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 4 | Whilst working on the drama series A Little Princess with a dozen twelve-to fourteen-year-old girls , I noted that although they were all sweet kids most of them would n't be seen dead without their eyeliner . |
| 5 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 6 | Sandys accepted the need for carriers in limited war and enshrined the continued existence off our carrier groups , one of which would normally be deployed East of Suez , in his 1957 White Paper . |
| 7 | A sufficient reason for this is that M may be an adjective or a verb , neither of which would normally be considered as having a referent . |
| 8 | They were required to choose one of three mortgage valuations ; a basic valuation to enable the society to assess the adequacy of the security offered , pursuant to the duty imposed on societies by section 13(1) of the Act of 1986 , a copy of which would normally be provided for the borrower on payment of a fee ; a house buyers ' valuation containing a fuller report , for which the borrower paid a higher fee ; or a full structural survey . |
| 9 | Blackburn chairman Rob Coar said that Warhurst had undergone a medical and x-rays , the results of which would not be known until next week . |
| 10 | Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ? |
| 11 | More serious still were the questions raised by the emergence of what would later be termed ‘ higher criticism ’ . |
| 12 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 14 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 15 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 16 | Without them , and thousands like them , none of us would currently be enjoying , if not prosperity , at least our freedom . |
| 17 | There is one exception to this rule of not searching the unregistered Land Charges Register in the case of registered land : prospective mortgagors who are buying a registered property have , as yet ( until they complete their purchase ) , no title to the registered land ; and therefore a bankruptcy or a receiving order made against them would not be disclosed by a title search . |
| 18 | On the 21 June , 1955 , the Caribbean Commission informed Williams that his contract with them would not be renewed . |
| 19 | I think to impose any other penalty upon him would merely be to exacerbate the situation . |
| 20 | He was living in what would traditionally be described as reduced circumstances . |
| 21 | I had learnt German at Dartmouth where I had specialized in my last year in what would now be known as arts subjects : languages , English and history . |
| 22 | There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us . |
| 23 | Oh yeah , and I quite like that , but if I had that , I 'd like to I would n't be tempted to decorate his room |
| 24 | I witnessed on several occasions horribly embarrassing disagreements between Harold Wilson and Marcia Williams , but it was clear that his loyalty to her would not be disturbed by any difference of opinion or any show of temper . |
| 25 | But the comments from those who have been to it would rapidly be displayed outside any West End theatre : ‘ It was splendid . |
| 26 | You get used to seeing so many things , you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions . |
| 27 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 28 | The education work included a village primary school with five hundred pupils , a central primary school equivalent to what would now be counted as secondary education , a teacher training school with fifty students and a Salvation Army officer 's Training College . |
| 29 | In so doing , they inevitably rejected the idea of innate sexual difference , laying much greater emphasis on what would today be called patterns of socialisation . |
| 30 | They thrive on what would normally be regarded as overcrowding , as this reduces the potential for territoriality and hence aggression . |