Example sentences of "they would be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 2 | They would be charged with specific tasks , such as monitoring discrimination , checking for ageism in job advertisements , creating a wider range of opportunities for older workers . |
| 3 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
| 4 | They would be overseen by social services inspectorate and education inspectors . |
| 5 | Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries . |
| 6 | She sought also to argue that he was in error in failing to decide that she had established a grave risk that they would be exposed to physical or psychological harm or otherwise placed in an intolerable situation if their return were to be ordered . |
| 7 | A more practical initiative which would currently involve them is a self build housing scheme , it 's at a very early stage , but basically erm , were working with the housing department , economic development unit and er work , the work 's department , there 's a , there 's a corporate project team , and were , were looking erm , we 've got to identify , positively identify a site for it , but we 're looking at bringing in European Social Fund , Funding and erm housing association money to get a self built housing scheme for young people , you know , where they would be trained in manual skills to build there own house and they live there , erm and er , so that 's , that 's quite an exciting scheme . |
| 8 | One legend taught that if a man and a woman caught the same wave they would be joined in physical union . |
| 9 | On these visits they would be joined by multiple cousins , and together ‘ we used to love to listen to stories about the past of the family : ’ stories which frame the opening of this granddaughter 's own life . |
| 10 | They would be placed into various troupes : the Merry Mascots , the Snowdrops or the Twelve Twinkling Stars , in accordance with their heights and talents . |
| 11 | Not that I think Carrick will win very much but at least they would be recognised as serious contenders . |
| 12 | VOLUNTARY groups in the province today warned they would be flooded with desperate demands for help from people forced into cash crises by the Government 's plans to impose a VAT levy on domestic fuel . |
| 13 | Senior Soviet officials stressed that the patrols were an emergency measure decided in the face of the soaring crime rate , and denied that they would be used for political ends or would violate human rights . |
| 14 | They would be attacked in short order and possibly even killed . |
| 15 | In these cases , the prince might well be surrounded by vassals who owed him military service ; but they would be present not from obligation but from desire , and they would be accompanied by large numbers whose reason for being there had nothing to do with feudal ties or fidelity . |
| 16 | If tutors were not doing their job as required they would be reported to National Council and their accredition would be withdrawn , and Institute students could only be taught by accredited tutors . |
| 17 | Since they would be going in different directions and at different times , Dora would use their car and another member of the group would give Rose a lift . |
| 18 | Since they would be stationed on inter-republican boundaries , the Supreme Soviet voted at the same time to work towards a definition of legal state borders with its neighbours by Feb. 1 , 1992 . |
| 19 | Then they would be lifted by hydraulic machinery from above , while masons filled the niches with stone beneath each as it was raised . |
| 20 | It was encouraging news , but the second session drew to a close with the vexed issues of religious freedom and the Jews , which were dealt with in the final two chapters of the document on ecumenism , still undecided — though Cardinal Bea insisted they would be discussed in due course . |
| 21 | BASI News warned members that they would be working against French law and could be heavily fined . |
| 22 | The railcoaches being the largest single class of trams , it was inevitable that they would be chosen for post-war rebuilding to suit changed circumstances . |
| 23 | They would be provided in good quality accommodation . |
| 24 | Last August Australia sent three naval ships to the Gulf ; Bob Hawke , the prime minister , made it clear in December that they would be put under American operational control and could well see combat . |