Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also acknowledged the extent of the country 's current economic recession but , invoking the spirit of Desert Storm ( the operational codename for the US prosecution of the Gulf war ) , he promised that it would be overcome . |
| 2 | They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed . |
| 3 | He was sitting in a chair — we were all having our picture taken — and I mentioned that it would be good if he could stand with us , so we could all be together . |
| 4 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 5 | She considered writing to Luke in London — she had even taken notepaper out — but realized that it would be directly confronting Moran . |
| 6 | He also realized that it would be chaste , that he would never physically consummate this love and that was fine . |
| 7 | But she caught sight of her watch and realized that it would be half-past three in the morning in New York . |
| 8 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
| 9 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ Erika agreed that it would be a nice change for her mother but she looked at Omi , sitting quietly in her chair . |
| 11 | Top American fight figure Emanuel Steward , the overlord of the Kronk gymnasium in Detroit , which reared Tommy Hearns to fame and fortune , agreed that it would be an ‘ insult ’ for Lewis to accept a $3m offer . |
| 12 | Top American fight figure Emanuel Steward , the overlord of the Kronk gymnasium in Detroit , which reared Tommy Hearns to fame and fortune , agreed that it would be an ‘ insult ’ for Lewis to accept a $3m offer . |
| 13 | His father suggested going to the Home Office , but then agreed that it would be futile as it was probably implicated . |
| 14 | The others agreed that it would be more fun to eat in the yard . |
| 15 | As it happened Acheson was in Paris when the cable arrived ; the Embassy replied with the unanimous opinion that it would be a serious mistake to deliver the memorandum ; and Acheson , having seen the correspondence , agreed that it would be inappropriate at the time . |
| 16 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 17 | When he insisted he needed a holiday , I agreed that it would be lovely to lie in the sun and swim in the warm Mediterranean , but I could not agree that it was an urgent need . |
| 18 | My Lord the the final matter is , my learned friends and I agreed that it would be proper for there to be a further interim payment er in the sum of twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 19 | More significantly in 1993 the Committee recommended that it would be sensible for all drinks in the UK to be taxed equally , according to their alcohol content . |
| 20 | He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale . |
| 21 | In the same moment , he realised that it would be extremely dangerous for Fenella to join them . |
| 22 | When , towards the end of 1985 , we merged with our sister bank to form Britain 's first nationwide 850-strong branch network , we realised that it would be important to develop name awareness throughout England and Wales . |
| 23 | Sean decided to take the money because he realised that it would be difficult to live with no money . |
| 24 | Storage Technology Corp sprang a surprise after the markets closed on Thursday last week when it announced that it would be buying privately-held would-be competitor in the disk array business , Chatsworth , California-based Amperif Corp . |
| 25 | Tom Williams , Labour Member for the constituency in which the colliery was situated , announced that it would be folly to continue the debate , and the dispute , perhaps not a very difficult one in any event , got itself settled . |
| 26 | At the first meeting of the committee which I attended the secretary announced that it would be necessary for members to disclose their interests , meaning thereby that they should declare with what companies and organisations they were involved . |
| 27 | The government also announced that it would be selling shares in enterprises owned or partly owned by the state and would be asking others to sign performance contracts . |
| 28 | Albania on Aug. 16 announced that it would be the 141st signatory country to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [ see pp. 22787-90 ] . |
| 29 | On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | On Oct. 25 Philips , the troubled multinational electronics company based in Eindhoven , announced that it would be cutting between 35,000 and 45,000 jobs from its 285,700-strong workforce by December 1991 , in addition to 9,000 jobs cut in July 1990 from its European computer and components businesses . |