Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the girls were under age for drinking , but knew they 'd be served without any trouble . |
| 2 | Otherwise there 'd already be a truce , and we 'd be saved from this mess . ’ |
| 3 | When I push her off me and over she whispers that she thought I 'd be tired at this hour of night . |
| 4 | There 'd be so many other people around that she 'd be cushioned to some degree from the effect of his presence , she had reasoned . |
| 5 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 6 | The chaos would be compounded by some schools claiming grant-maintained status . |
| 7 | It remains to be seen whether the changes were that dramatic , but the new dispensation was certainly to mean that sociological themes and realism generally would be handled with more care . |
| 8 | In February 1284 , Constance de Béarn , vicomtesse of Marsan , complained that her claim to the comté of Bigorre had been assigned a hearing by Jean de Grilly , seneschal of Gascony , at Langon in the Bazadais because , she alleged , he knew that ‘ the customs of Bazadais were against her , and that the opposing parties would be aided by those customs ’ . |
| 9 | BSL would be enhanced by this recognition and use . |
| 10 | Soon the drawings of people with hunched shoulders , their heads bowed , would be filled with this drama . |
| 11 | Varieties and eventually species would be formed despite any tendency for interbreeding with the main body of the population in the centre . |
| 12 | Not much would be served at this stage by ousting Sir Derek Alun-Jones as chairman , as some shareholders would like . |
| 13 | Cleaning staff would be employed for that site only , and usually on a full time basis , working to extremely rigorous standards . |
| 14 | There would be a fierce struggle , resulting in the Reds being bundled out of the building , whereupon the same tactics would be employed in another part of the building . |
| 15 | Some analysts have suggested the local press could be hardest hit and one recent newspaper report suggested VAT would be limited to those papers with circulations over 100,000 . |
| 16 | The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union . |
| 17 | He calculated that the Viet Minh would be destroyed in any attempt to capture his position . |
| 18 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 19 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 20 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 21 | So in the case of ’ money ’ , the corpus would be searched for all appearances of that word , and then the immediate contexts of each occurrence ( the concordances ) would be collected and truncated to extend no more than four words either side of the lemma . |
| 22 | ‘ There was an implied term in the contract of service that the employer would comply with ( the law ) from which it would follow that the servant would be indemnified for any damage caused by his negligence . ’ |
| 23 | They used their own judgment about how much threat would be involved for most people in those circumstances . |
| 24 | Outside the immaculately maintained and smartly guarded naval enclaves , where minds were drilled as thoroughly as bodies in uniformity and obedience , the privilege of royal society was granted on condition that it would be denied to all outsiders . |
| 25 | Since this singularity is time-like , it would be missed by most observers . |
| 26 | They know that the greatest damage would be done to this economy by raising taxes , by imposing a minimum wage and by restoring artificial trade union powers . |
| 27 | By the middle of January 1937 , he had spoken to Mairet , and he gave the impression that anything he might write about the crisis in the New English Weekly would be done with some reluctance , not least because he was extremely busy . |
| 28 | If mere contact were always enough then manifest injustice would be done in many cases . |
| 29 | Prison sentences would be increased for many offences , particulary those involving the use of guns . |
| 30 | How much danger would be posed to such pensions by some of Labour 's high-inflation , high-spending policies ? |