Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] would be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Secure in their seniority , these Congressional ‘ barons ’ determined when and if committee meetings were held ; controlled the appearance of witnesses ; decided the speaking opportunities of their colleagues on the committee ; hired and fired committee staff ; decreed whether or not their would be sub-committees ; appointed sub-committee chairmen ; reported the deliberations of the committee to the full House and appointed committee representatives to conference committees .
2 So , it 's not chickenfeed when you start to er , or maybe it would be chickenfeed
3 As she stood barefoot on the cold boards , she comforted herself with the thought that soon it would be spring , daffodils would raise proud trumpets to nod in the soft breezes and in the fields beyond the town lambs would be born .
4 Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God 's help for the sowing and future harvest .
5 From this angle at least no light showed therein , at this hour , an encouraging sign , although undoubtedly there would be guards on duty .
6 When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph .
7 Now he was dead he was no longer Jack Monro but only Syl 's father , the dead husband of Mrs Monro , and soon I would be Margaret Monro .
8 And now it would be Mosley 's job to reconcile it all , to guide this 20th century sporting monster towards the next millennium .
9 ‘ Because he had not fully realized that suspicion would still follow him , and now it would be suspicion of murder .
10 They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again .
11 Cos otherwise it would be marmit .
12 cos otherwise it would be frost .
13 It began to be a test — the test — of whether he could still live with himself once the months ( but probably it would be years ) of imprisonment were over .
14 But maybe it would be years before the Gunmint bothered to tell it to do anything .
15 My mother was n't too pleased either because sometimes there would be spillages on her carpets .
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