Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it possible that the informant deliberately told the kidnappers I would be there , knowing what the consequences were likely to be ? ’ |
| 2 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 3 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was to insult the contestants I would be shooting myself in the foot . |
| 5 | When I found out the times I would be working things started to look better . |
| 6 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 8 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
| 9 | The general idea is that erm you could replace the many wires that feed power to lights , horns and things of that sort by a single wire that just provides power to everything , along which you would send signals which would be decoded by micro-electronic components within the lamp unit to decide whether that should draw power or not draw power , and so you can replace the harness , effectively , with a single thick wire . |
| 10 | Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , said he did not look at the deal in terms of oil or gas production and reserves which would be acquired , but rather in terms of cash flow which could be generated for his company by rationalising operations of the two companies in parts of the US where they both have interests . |
| 11 | In the promotion of rapid industrialization , the Japanese state fostered the growth of large organizations which would be better placed to resist the intense competition of Western companies . |
| 12 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Certain of these units will be regarded as core units , requiring to be completed as part of the course , other units being options , the student being able to select those units which would be best suited to his/her own particular needs . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke told MPs his objective was to encourage forces to devolve responsibility to local units which would be directly accountable to their communities . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke told MPs his objective was to encourage forces to devolve responsibility to local units which would be directly accountable to their communities . |
| 16 | PASS ( Programme Analysis of Service Systems ; Wolfensberger and Glenn , 1973 ) evaluates services in terms of how far they comply with appearances , practices and settings which would be valued by the rest of society . |
| 17 | The report suggested that this was the reverse of the settings which would be expected and that this could have contributed to the homing errors . |
| 18 | Progress towards the phased return to civilian rule continued in 1990 with the registration in May of the two political parties which would be allowed to operate in the Third Republic , the lifting of the ban on party politics at local level in June , and the holding of local elections in December [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 19 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 20 | In order to protect its position , the UK government announced on Sept. 3 that it intended to borrow an amount equivalent to 10,000 million European currency units ( US$1.00=ECU1.434 at that stage ) in currencies which would be sold for sterling through the foreign exchange market in addition to any normal market intervention . |
| 21 | permission to enlarge Thornton Heath depôt to accommodate the additional cars which would be necessary to work the enlarged system and to provide an entrance in Whitehall Road . |
| 22 | On July 14 Strasser announced that the NPRC would become the Supreme Council of State ( SCS ) and that the Cabinet would be transformed into a Council of State Secretaries which would be in charge of " day to day administration " and would be directly responsible to the SCS . |
| 23 | The Bolivian art historian Teresa Gisbert writes that the Councils of Lima , which were responsible for questions of orthodoxy in the Viceroyalty : ‘ sought to attract Indians to the new faith by the use of images which would be especially appealing to them . ' |
| 24 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 25 | The aim was to facilitate the development of schools which would be attended by pupils of different faiths . |
| 26 | When the number of new writerships , cadetships and surgeoncies which would be required became known each year , the total was divided as evenly as possible into thirty shares . |
| 27 | We shall be considering how new styles of relationship might be defined and generated ; relationships which would be more in tune with the increasingly influential changes in philosophy and policy , and which can support , in turn , the development of new professional attitudes and practices . |
| 28 | The budgets of course proposed by the Liberal and Labour groups , have some aspects which would be desirable . |
| 29 | Precatory words were one , but only one , category of words which would be accepted as setting up trusts if they made the testator 's intention clear . |
| 30 | This would mean dropping the roads and footpaths on to the bed of the quarries which would be covered with topsoil and be returned to agricultural use . |