Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 2 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 3 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 4 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 5 | From this experiment , I would be inclined to belief that psychology should be predominantly an activity in which we use non-experimental methods for understanding people 's experiences in their own terms , taking into account the social context of those experiments , rather than an activity in which we transform common sense into scientific knowledge . |
| 6 | Here samples were made which would be sent to the London shop for testing . |
| 7 | They completed a standard application form , which included a declaration that the society would obtain a valuation of the property , a copy of which would be sent to the pursuers , and that no responsibility for the information therein would lie with either the society or the valuer . |
| 8 | It would , Burlatsky suggested , be based upon a wide variety of property forms , including state property which would be developed to the higher level of public ownership of the whole people . |
| 9 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 10 | At a regular monthly meeting on April 9 at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel , EC central bank governors approved a final draft version of the statutes for the proposed Eurofed which would be presented to the EC presidency for discussion . |
| 11 | Byelarus refused to sign the draft treaty , which would be presented to the CIS summit in September for signing . |
| 12 | Would the amount which would be given to ailing industries be more than taken away from healthy ones ? |
| 13 | Either , therefore , Labour would govern with the support of the Liberals which would indeed make the Liberals the arbiters of government ; or Labour would be defeated in the House , and seek a dissolution which would be denied to them . |
| 14 | Paul Devereux has called these lines ‘ geomantic corridors ’ , where the same standards of straightness which would be applied to a traditional ley are inappropriate . |
| 15 | Conable said that Mexico would be eligible for further loans worth $3,000 million in 1990 , two-thirds of which would be devoted to debt reduction . |
| 16 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 17 | Ian Glick QC , for Walker Greenbank , told the court that WG acquired a private shelving company , Alkar , in January 1987 , agreeing to pay its owners , Alan and William Carr , an initial amount of £2.2m in WG shares followed by a series of payments which would be linked to Alkar 's profit performance . |
| 18 | Whilst there is no great dis difference in the distance of any of the sites in terms of , in aggregate , all the journeys which would be attracted to Cambridge , bearing in mind the role of the new settlement in serving Cambridge 's development needs , would be substantially higher in money terms and in the use of energy than most of the alternative proposals . |
| 19 | Civic Union ( CU ) , a centrist opposition bloc formed in June [ see pp. 38974 ; 39058 ] , held a press conference on Sept. 23 to introduce its anti-crisis programme which would be submitted to Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet . |
| 20 | This would need to retain within it the unique legal function of Convocation which would be restricted to those at present eligible to exercise it , that is to graduates and staff alone . |
| 21 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 22 | One is the absence of a shield , which would be attached to the helmet to protect the chin and throat . |
| 23 | Ultimately the latter would choose a head of state and a government would be formed , which would be admitted to the UN . |
| 24 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 25 | A commission was appointed to draw up a new constitution which would be put to a referendum in mid-1990 . |
| 26 | He was then granted full power for six months as well as authority to draw up a new constitution , which would be put to a popular referendum for ratification . |
| 27 | On Aug. 24 the NEC announced that fresh elections would take place in three rounds between Sept. 12 and Sept. 26 , when voting would only be permitted on production of membership cards which would be issued to party members in the interim . |
| 28 | There he was to search the Scriptures and the writings of the early Fathers and write a book which would be distributed to the universities and would enable them to give their advice as to whether the Pope had authority to enable a man to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 29 | Ever since the result of the General Election , I have taken for granted that , on Baldwin 's defeat in the House of Commons , the King would send for Ramsay MacDonald ; and I have deprecated any attempt to prevent his having the same facilities which would be accorded to any Minister entrusted by the Sovereign with the formation of a Government . |
| 30 | Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer . |