Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 2 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 3 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 4 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 5 | The approach of the Court was that taking into account the three aggravating circumstances , the responsibility of the offender , the age of the girl and the degree of planning , the proper starting point would have been in the region of eight years : against that were the plea of guilty , the offender 's remorse and the effect on the offender of the double appearance . |
| 6 | His shop would have been in a back street , probably in a run-down part of the town , amongst the dwellings of those whom he catered for ; indeed , Sowerberry himself was only just above the bread-line . |
| 7 | For her , the only supreme sacrifice would have been in giving up her husband . |
| 8 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 9 | A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done . |
| 10 | However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit . |
| 11 | Ostensibly more compelling is the argument that if British manufacturing industry had matched insurance , banking , and allied financial services , in terms of international competitiveness , the economy would have been in a very healthy state indeed . |
| 12 | Its most obvious use would have been in a pharmacy . |
| 13 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
| 14 | A little hesitation would have been in order . |
| 15 | A lesser orchestra would have been in danger of simply falling apart . |
| 16 | The most likely context for discovering the qualities of jade would have been in the course of grinding and polishing axe or adze blades , one of the most widespread components of the Neolithic tool-kit from Europe to China . |
| 17 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 18 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 19 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
| 20 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 21 | A couple of years ago this crowd would have been in Ralph Lauren from head to toe , but today there 's a mixture of Guess , Nautica , Tommy Hilfiger ( ‘ Tommy got the colours ’ ) , Fila and even Duck Head , an obscure Southern prep-wear firm . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is interesting to speculate what sort of state the region and the rest of the country would have been in now had James Callaghan 's moribund administration held on to power in 1979 . |
| 23 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |
| 24 | She worked like an automaton , and her mind was as drowned out by it as her speech would have been in a noisy factory . |